Imagining Creedal Authority in the Changed Ecumenical Landscape of the 21st Century
Abstract
This article queries the Creeds’ continuing significance as a means of unity with the whole church, whether in the UCA, its ecumenical partners, or the WCC and the ecumenical movement. By tracking through credal history and contemporary utility, the paper reflects on the Creeds’ capacity as a uniting influence amidst twenty-first century challenges and realities. The point is made that the God-centred nature of the classical creeds is a significant and powerful challenge to the pervasive anthropocentricity of the contemporary landscape.
Author Biography
Katalina Tahaafe-Williams
Katalina Tahaafe-Williams (PhD) is an ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. She holds degrees from the Universities of NSW, London and Birmingham UK. She has served the world church as a leader in public and contextual theology, world mission and ecumenical missiology. Her publications have appeared in the International Review of Mission, the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. She is one of the editors of both the Edinburgh Companion to Global Christianity (2021) and Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century (2011).