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The CPCE has something to say. It has given important impulses to ecumenism. With its study, “The Church of Jesus Christ”, a comprehensive protestant understanding of the church was formulated for the first time. The following study, “Church and Israel”, made this teaching fruitful for the relation between Christians and Jews. In recent years there were added weighty statements on ethical decision-making and on the missionary task of the churches.
The CPCE sets signs. Presidium and Council have repeatedly in the last years pointedly introduced a protestant position into important debates in society at large. Among these are the process of European unification, human rights, intercultural dialogue and the question of a “just war” as well as religious freedom and liberty of opinion.
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Leuenberg Agreement
The CPCE is the communion of the protestant churches. 94 lutheran, methodist, reformed and united churches from over thirty countries in Europe and South America belong to it. With that the CPCE represents altogether around 50 million Protestants.
The CPCE exists thanks to the Leuenberg Agreement of 1973. It concluded: churches are allowed to be different because they appeal to the Gospel as their common basis. That sounds simple, but has far-reaching consequences: since then a lutheran minister can preach from a reformed pulpit or a French minister lead a congregation in Germany.
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Czech | Download |
Danish | Download |
Dutch | Download |
English | Download |
Estonian | Download |
Finnish | Download |
French | Download |
German | Download |
Hungarian | Download |
Italian | Download |
Latvian | Download |
Lithuanian | Download |
Norwegian | Download |
Polish | Download |
Portuguese | Download |
Romanian | Download |
Spanish | Download |
Leuenberg Texts
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Leuenberg Documents 1: The Church of Jesus Christ | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 2: Sacraments, Ministry, Ordination | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 3: Protestant Texts on Ethical Decision-Making | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 4: Leuenberg, Meissen, and Porvoo | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 5: The Christian WItness on Freedom | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 6: Church and Israel | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 7: Church - People - State - Nation | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 8: Consultation between the CEC and the LCF on Ecclesiology | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 9: Dialogue between EBF and CPCE on the Doctrine and Practice of Baptism | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 10: Gesetz und Evangelium | Download |
Leuenberg Documents 11: Consultations between CEC and CPCE | Download |
General Assembly Basel 2018
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Church Communion.pdf | Download |
Continuing education.pdf | Download |
CPCE-PCPCU Report.pdf | Download |
Education for a future.pdf | Download |
Final Report with Appendixes.pdf | Download |
Message of peace.pdf | Download |
Migration and Church Communion.pdf | Download |
Religious Plurality.pdf | Download |
Theology of Diaspora / Theologie der Diaspora - Book / Buch | Download |
Theology of Diaspora.pdf | Download |
Bericht Einheitsrat.pdf | Download |
Bildung für Zukunft.pdf | Download |
Fortbildung.pdf | Download |
Friedenswort.pdf | Download |
Kirchengemeinschaft.pdf | Download |
Migration und Kirchengemeinschaft.pdf | Download |
Pluralität der Religionen.pdf | Download |
Schlussbericht mit Anhängen.pdf | Download |
Theologie der Diaspora.pdf | Download |
Ethics
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A time to live, and a time to die | Download |
Leben hat seine Zeit, Sterben hat seine Zeit | Download |
Čas žít, čas umírat | Download |
Un temps pour vivre, et un temps pour mourir | Download |
Czas życia i czas umierania | Download |
Before I formed you in the womb | Download |
Bevor ich Dich im Mutterleib geformt habe | Download |
Avant que je te forme dans le ventre | Download |
Interpellations protestantes sur l’Assistance Médicale à la Procréation et la Gestation Pour Autrui | Download |
Viljatusravi ja suremisabi eetika | Download |
Ecumenical Dialogues
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Agreement EBF-CPCE September 2010 | Download |
Vereinbarung EBF-GEKE September 2010 | Download |
CPCE-Anglican communiqué Kappel 2014 | Download |
CPCE-Anglican memorandum Dec 2012 | Download |
GEKE-Anglikaner Memorandum Dez 2012 | Download |
Pontifical Council | Download |
Päpstlicher Einheitsrat | Download |
Conseil pontifical | Download |
Studienprozess "Theologie der Diaspora"
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Programm | Download |
Einführung | Download |
Deutsche Perspektiven | Download |
Tschechische Perspektiven | Download |
Katholizismus und Diaspora | Download |
Österreichische Perspektiven | Download |
Italienische Perspektiven | Download |
Französische Perspektiven | Download |
Ungarische Perspektiven | Download |
Slowakische Perspektiven | Download |
Schlussthesen | Download |
