Dorothea Sattler and Volker Leppin present an anthology stemming from the Ecumenical Work Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologists(ÖAK). The authors discuss the theological importance of the history of the Reformation with reference to modern ecumenical challenges. On occasion of the 500th anniversary of Luther´s Reformation, Dorothea Sattler and Volker Leppin present an anthology stemming from the Ecumenical Work Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologists (ÖAK). In the contributions included, the authors reconstruct the historical events of the 16th century and discuss their meaning from the vantage point of systematic theology. The Reformation is taken as an occasion for an interconfessional cooperation to determine the nature of the Protestant Church and to constructively and critically rethink the modern ecumenical challenges facing the Church.

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Dr. theol. Volker Leppin ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Ev.-Theol. Fakultät der Universität Tübingen. Dr. theol. Dorothea Sattler ist Professorin für Ökumenische Theologie und Dogmatik an der Universität Münster.

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Dorothea Sattler and Volker Leppin present an anthology of the Ecumenical working group of protestant and catholic theologians due to the reformations' 500thanniversary. The authors reconstruct in their contributions the historical events of the 16thcentury und discuss their theological significance. The reformation gives reason to determine the essence of the one church and to reflect on the current ecumenical challenges in a critical and constructive way.