Institute for Ecumenical Research
The Institute for Ecumenical Research at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen is a self-administered institution for teaching and research at the Catholic Theological Faculty . It was founded in 1963/64 by Hans Küng and led by him for over thirty years.
The courses offered by the institute, which focuses on research, complement the courses offered by the two theological faculties. In addition to the topics of ecumenical theology in the narrower sense, the work of the institute is dedicated to interdisciplinary cooperation in its own faculty, with the Evangelical Theological Faculty (e.g. in the Ecumenical Working Group), with colleagues from other disciplines, especially with the areas Natural science, social psychology, cultural and religious studies. The courses offered by the research institute convey - in addition to basic information on ecumenism and interreligious dialogue - the experiences and reflections made in this work.
There is a scientific cooperation with the Ecumenical Institute of the Lutheran World Federation in Strasbourg and the denominational institute of the Evangelical Federation in Bensheim in the Southwest Federation . There are contacts to ecumenical offices in Geneva ; an international cooperation within the framework of the Societas Oecumenica ( European Society for Ecumenical Research ), of which Bernd Jochen Hilberath was president from 2004 to 2006. There is also an intensive collaboration with the International Diaconate Center in Rottenburg am Neckar .
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See also
- Denominational Institute , Bensheim
- Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism , Paderborn