Christian Ecumenism
A Guide to Resources in Mount Angel Abbey Library

Mount Angel Abbey Library is a charter subscriber to the American Church Records Series compiled by A. T. DeGroot. It includes a number of ecumenical journals on microfilm (interfiled with the rest of the periodicals on microform) as well as retrospective and current records and statistics for the Christian churches of the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world. All these records are on microfilm in the Patristic and Latin Christian Studies Room.

The most useful references for ecumenical data are the following:

• Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Mircea Eliade, et al. 16 vol. New York : Macmillan, 1987. (Ref BL 31 E46)
• Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Ed. Nicholas Lossky, et. al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991. A fine one-volume encyclopedia prepared by the WCC. (Ref BX 8.2 D53)
• Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedia of American Religions. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1987. (Ref BL 2530 U6 M449)
• World Christian Encyclopedia. Ed. David Barrett. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1982. A gold mine of data on the Christian churches of every country in the world. (BR 95 W67)

• Lange, Ernst. And Yet It Moves : Dream and Reality of the Ecumenical Movement. tr. by Edwin Robertson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1979. (BX 8.2 L28513)
• The Ecumenical Movement: an Anthology of Key Texts and Voices. Ed. Michael Kinnomon and Brian Cope. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1997. (BX 6.5 E33)
• The Ecumenical Revolution: an Interpretation of the Catholic-Protestant Dialogue.. Ed. Robert McAfee Brown. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967. (BX 6.5 B75)
• Ecumenism. Ed. Jeffrey Gros, et al. New York: Paulist, 1998. (BX 1784 G76)
• The Future of Ecumenism. Ed. Hans Küng. New York: Paulist, 1969. (BX 6.9 C748 F989)
• A history of the ecumenical movement. Ed. Ruth Rouse and Stephen Neill. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1967. (BX 6.5 R6)
• The Sense of Ecumenical Tradition: the Ecumenical Vision and Witness of the Orthodox. Ed. Ion Bria. Geneva : WCC Publications, 1991. (BX 324 B75)
• The unity we have and the unity we seek : ecumenical prospects for the third millennium . Ed. Jeremy Morris. London : T & T Clark, 2003. (BX8.3 .U56)

• Ecumenical Review (World Council of Churches) This is the WCC's premier journal of theology.
• Ecumenical Trends (Graymoor Ecumenical Institute). The Graymoor Friars, who originated as an Anglican religious order and joined the Roman Catholic church, publish this helpful newsletter about ecumenical developments.
• Irénikon (Chevetogne). A scholarly theological journal published by a monastery which has long been in the forefront of Catholic-Orthodox relations. In French.
• Istina (Paris). Another scholarly journal in French, concerned primarily with the Orthodox church.
• Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Philadelphia). Wide-ranging viewpoint has reflected liberal Catholic theology.
• One in Christ (England). A venerable English ecumenical journal.
• Ostkirliche Studien (Würzburg).
• SIDIC (Service international de documentation Judéo-Chrétienne (Rome).
• Sobornost (England). (Incorporating Eastern Churches Quarterly)
• Una Sancta (Germany). A German ecumenical journal, not to be confused with a now defunct American Lutheran journal of the same name.

The library subscribes to non-denominational theological journals, which accept contributions from many points of view; these are not included here. Rather, what follows is a list of journals in the library which consistently present the history and theology of a specific Christian denomination or tradition:

• Anglican Theological Review.
• Coptic Church Review
• Currents in Theology and Mission (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
• St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly. St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary; Orthodox Church.
• Westminster Theological Journal. Westminster Theological Seminary; Conservative reformed, scholarly.

Last updated May 2005