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Martti Muukkonen, Ecumenism of the Laity: Continuity and Change in the Mission View of the World''s Alliance of Young Men''s Christian Associations.

Publication: International Review of Mission
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 		Format: Online - approximately 767 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Martti Muukkonen, Ecumenism of the Laity: Continuity and Change in the Mission View of the World''s Alliance of Young Men''s Christian Associations.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
* Ecumenism of the Laity: 1855-1955, Joensuun yliopistopaino, Joensuu, 2002, 463 pages.

With his interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation, the author presents a detailed, well-documented study of the history of the YMCA as the central part of the lay-inspired roots of the modern ecumenical movement. Any research on the early history of the modern ecumenical movement finds here a great number of interesting and illuminating resources that point to the vitality the early ecumenical developments of the 19th and 20th centuries owe to laity movements such as the YMCA.

At a time of the growing church centralism of the institutionalized ecumenical movement, this study comes in timely fashion to point to the role of the movements...

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