35. Annual Meeting 2025:

Pilgrims – Strangers – Neighbours? - Ecumenical Perspectives On Migration And Diaspora

(Keynotes: Prof. Dr. Matthias Ehmann, Theologische Hochschule Ewersbach; Dr. Claudia Rammelt, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) 

 

Paper presentations:

• Anne Heikkinen – Amid Conflict, Glocality, and Colonialism: Ecumenical Encounters and Reflections of Palestinian Christians
• Anne Ross – Boundaries as Sites of Theological Insight: Paul Tillich and Kwok Pui-lan on the Epistemological Potential of Migrational Existence
• Antonia Kura – Shared Sacred Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities for Ecumenism in Germany
• Gyöngyi Mazsu (online) – Where Are We? Pastoral Care for Immigrants
• Hayford Junior & Akinwumi Ambrose – Home Away From Home: African Migrant Churches, Identity, and Ecumenical Engagement in Germany
• Ihtsham Ravi – Intercultural Critique of Post-Liberal Theology of Ecumenism
• Jebin Thankaraj – Psalms of Hope in Light of the Refugee Crisis
• Johannes Beck – Sharing in Otherness: Migration and Identification in Hebrews
• Lal Chhandama (online) – Displacement and Divine Justice: Reimagining Christian Identity through the Sermon on the Mount in Migrant and Diaspora Contexts
• Lennart Luhmann – Icons as a Visual Home: Orthodox Diaspora and its Artefacts
• Melwin Mathew – Pilgrims Together: The Malankara Catholic Diaspora and the Reimagining of Christian Unity through Ecumenical Hospitality
• Paulien Wagener – Migration as an Opening for the Visible Unity
• Rima Ghazinyan – The Armenian Quarter and the Reconciliation Process around the Holy City since the 1990s
• Robert Isaf – The Trinitarian Sufi Poetry of Gregory Barhebraeus
• Samuel Ramapuram – Drums to Diaspora: Indian Rhythms in South African Soundscapes
• Seyma Aksoy – Intellectual Diaspora as Ecumenical Bridge: German Scholars in Türkiye after 1933
• Vladan Stankovic – An Orthodox Reflection on Migration and Encounter with the Other
• Youhanna Matta – The Coptic Orthodox Church in the Diaspora: A Case Study from Northern Germany

 

34. Annual Meeting 2024:

Grassroots Ecumenism

(Rev. Prof. Dr Simone Sinn, University of Münster & Rev. Dr. Callan Slipper, Churches Together in England)

 

33. Annual Meeting 2023:

"Love one another". Ecumenism, Peace, and Justice

(Dr. Sara Gehlin, University College Stockholm & Rev. Dr. George Tsourous, University of Kent)

 

32. Annual Meeting 2022:

Call to communion. Ecumenism as a life commitment

(Br. Richard from Taizé & Dr. Joan Patricia Back from the Focolare Community)

 

31. Annual Meeting 2019:

Family & Faith

(Prof. Dr. Katherine Lucsas & Prof. Dr. Peter Ben-Smit)

 

30. Annual Meeting 2018:

Theosis. Ecumenical Perspectives on Sanctification

(Prof. Dr. Jennifer Wasmuth, Prof. Dr. Nikolai V. Sakharov)

 

29. Annual Meeting 2017:

Ecumenical Perspectives on Ordination and Ministry

(Rev. Dr. Dagmar Heller)

 

28. Annual Meeting 2016:

Towards a Theology of the Body: Ecumenical and Ecosophical Implications

(Fr. Dr. K. M. George)

 

27. Annual Meeting 2015:

Dimensions and ethics of the interreligious dialogue (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dehn)

How far can we go? Dialogue intercultural and transcultural, interreligious and transreligious (Prof. Dr. Martin Tamcke)

 

26. Annual Meeting 2014

The role of the churches since the socio-political change 25 years ago in Europe and ecumenical-theological thoughts on Just Peace.

 

25. Annual Meeting 2013

The contribution of Ecumenism to theological formation

 

24. Annual Meeting 2012

The meaning of secularism for Ecumenism and its consequences for the churches in Europe

 

23. Annual Meeting 2011

Living Liturgy - Orthodox perspectives on social engagement

 

22. Annual Meeting 2010

Christian Mission - Ecumenical witness in a globalised world

 

21. Annual Meeting 2009

Global crises as ecumenical challenge

 

20. Annual Meeting 2008

Ecumenical formation - Shaping identities in church and society

 

19. Annual Meeting 2007

Making Sense - Ecumenical formation in a multireligious context

 

18. Annual Meeting 2006

Ecumenical hermeneutics between contextuality and confessionality

 

17. Annual Meeting 2005

The future of theology and missiology

 

16. Annual Meeting 2004 (CANCELLED)

Islam and Mission - A chance for dialogue?

 

15. Annual Meeting 2003

The virtual church in the village - Information technologies and the churches in North and South

 

14. Annual Meeting 2002

Ecumenical social ethics - quo vadis?

 

13. Annual Meeting 2001

Intercultural exegesis of the Bible

 

12. Annual Meeting 2000

The Pentecostal, and the Ecumenical Movement - on pluralist theology of religions, interreligious dialogue and the mission

 

11. Annual Meeting 1999

"Missions of Dialogue?" - on the current mission theology in conversation with the pluralistic religious theology

 

10. Annual Meeting 1998

Ecumenical Movement in the tension between East and West?

 

9. Annual Meeting 1997

Mission theology in the 21st Century - from export to import

 

8. Annual Meeting 1996

Reconciliation

 

7. Annual Meeting 1995

Ecumenical Council and the ecumenical movement

 

6. Annual Meeting 1994

Dialogue with the younger generation of EATWOT-theologians

 

5. Annual Meeting 1993

The presentation of ecumenical events in the media

 

4. Annual Meeting 1992

The new division between East and West - ecumenical perspectives on the role of churches in Europe

 

3. Annual Meeting 1991

Intercultural theology and intercultural dialogue

 

2. Annual Meeting 1990

Stagnation or innovation in the ecumenical movement

 

1. Annual Meeting 1989

The task of ecumenical research in our context

 

24. bis 25. Mai 1988

Foundation of the Ecumenical Research Forum at Evangelical Academy in Iserlohn / Germany