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No Greater Love
Author(s) -
Borthwick Kirsty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/erev.12614
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , injustice , theme (computing) , key (lock) , sociology , environmental ethics , history , political science , law , philosophy , ecology , archaeology , biology , computer science , operating system
It is in overcoming the powers of death that Christ’s love moves the world to reconciliation and unity. This article examines three present global crises – COVID‐19, climate change, and racial injustice – from the context of Western Europe, exploring how Christ’s love first overcomes the powers of death and then calls us to our own death to self, in pursuit of reconciliation and unity. 2 Corinthians 5:14a, a key inspiration for the theme of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, sets the movement of Christ’s love in the context of his death and resurrection, in which we share. Taking seriously Christ’s encounter with the powers of death, and our abiding in that love, has pertinent consequences for how we understand movements toward reconciliation and unity in Western Europe today.