Article April 30, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Tullio Vinay

The Congregationalist

Pastor Tullio Vinay
Waldensian minister, Riesi, Sicily
in The Congregationalist
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A question I often ask myself these days when it is fashionable to talk of ecumenical subjects is whether true ecumenism is not the one that is given by a deep unity of feeling, a "being of one mind" that does not ignore, but goes beyond the dogmatic divergencies of various churches.

Actually dogma or, simply, doctrine, does not unite. A single parish, taught in the same way, instructed in healthy orthodoxy, with the same liturgical customs, may be deeply divided. And I don't mean divisions due to internal quarrels that arise out of gossip and differences in temperament, but the fact of not being of one mind in understanding the age in which we live and the believer's mission in it. Anyone can notice this. . . .

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