Die Menschwerdung Gottes als Prämisse für die christliche Ökumene der Gegenwart: eine orthodoxe Perspektive

Abstract

The question about the authentic Christian doctrine lets us experience different answers throughout history. The very problematic emerges though with regard to the ecumenical coexistence and cooperation of different Christian denominations. Not only Christ himself, but also his incarnation in particular, could raise a new perspective for the ecumenical dialogue today. The comprehensive relevance of the Incarnation has shown its central relevance for the Christian doctrine from the ancient times of Athanasius of Alexandria and Medieval thinking to the dialectic and contemporary theology. In the present article, we are going to analyze how justifiable is our statement that the Incarnation theology, as one of the most relevant topics of Christian systematic theology, could constitute the core of the Christian interconfessional consonances today.