Publications of the Institute for Mission, Ecumenism and Global Responsibility
On this page you will find publications of the Institute for Mission, Ecumenism and Global Responsibility of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia. The brochures are usually provided as PDF files free of charge.
Upon the reimbursement of postal charges our publications can be sent to you by conventional mail. Please contact us by e-mail or simply call us in Dortmund on 0231-540970.
M a g a z i n e s
möwe.news
Four or five times a year our online newsletter möwe.news provides short reports, personnel news and information on materials and events within the scope of mission and ecumenism, focussing in particular on Westphalia.
If you wish to read the latest möwe.news issue, please click on the picture on the left.
You will find previous issues in our archive.
Climate of Justice. Material for Local Church Work and Religious Education
In September 2008 the brochure on climate change with contributions from Peter Ohligschläger, Dr. Elga Zachau, Lars Klinnert, Matthias Elsermann and Matthias Börner was published as MÖWe-online material number 1.
In addition to the theological foundation of climate change, the brochure offers 14 different modules for pedagogical work.
If required, you can also borrow a box with supplementary material from the MÖWe Institute in Dortmund.
Institute for Mission, Ecumenism and Global Responsibility (MÖWe) / Institute for Church and Society/Institute Südwind/United Evangelical Mission (Ed.): Church and Globalisation, Wuppertal, 2008
(Foedus Publishing Company)
Globalisation and church – trends and challenges, sustainable climate protection, global governance, intercultural cooperation, worldwide wars and peacekeeping – a wide range of different topical contributions are presented as documentation of a strategy conference from 2007.
ZACHAU, Elga: Our Joint Concern for Justice: The Church Alliance between the Evangelical Church of the Union and the United Church of Christ (U.S.A.) 1980 - 2005, Neukirchen, 2009, 39,90 €
(Neukirchener Publishing Company [Neukirchener Verlag])
This book is the publication of Elga Zachau’s dissertation. It reflects upon the church partnership with one of the so-called mainline churches in the U.S.A. – the United Church of Christ –, which also maintains a close partnership with the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
HOHMANN, Christian/LESSING, Hanns/HINZ, Rudolf: Wolfram Kistner: Justice and Reconciliation, Hannover, 2008, 24,90 €
(Lutheran Publishing House [Luthersches Verlagshaus])
In this book Christian Hohmann, Hanns Lessing und Rudolf Hinz have carefully edited writings and documents of the South African liberation theologian, Wolfram Kistner.
KRIEGER, Thomas in cooperation with the Evangelical student communities in Westphalia: Why We Are Here. Foreign Students from Developing Countries Find their Way into Everyday Life at German Universities, Bielefeld, 2007, 9,80 €
(Luther Publishing Company [Luther-Verlag])
Approximately 45,000 people from Asia, Africa and Latin America study at German universities. As immigrants with foreign cultural backgrounds, these students have to find a way of integrating themselves into everyday life at German universities. This publication reveals in detail the role Christian student communities play at universities.
HOFFMANN, Horst: Church in Context. The Relevance to Today of Karl Barth’s Ecclesiology, Frankfurt a.M., 2007, 24,00 €
(Hartmut Spenner Publishing Company [Hartmut Spenner Verlag])
This book is the publication of Horst Hoffmann’s dissertation. Karl Barth’s doctrine of the church is still up to date and relevant, thus providing an important guideline for theological debates about the relationship between the church and the state.