{"id":7327,"date":"2015-11-10T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2015-12-08T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:33:06","slug":"jesudas-athyals-new-edited-volume-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2015\/11\/10\/jesudas-athyals-new-edited-volume-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian Presence in the Ecumenical Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CGCM visiting researcher Jesudas\u00a0Athyal&#8217;s edited book\u00a0<em>A Light to the Nations: The Indian Presence in the Ecumenical Movement in the Twentieth Century<\/em> is now available.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1207\" title=\"Athyal Jesudas portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2010\/02\/Athyal-Jesudas-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Athyal Jesudas portrait\" height=\"255\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a range of contributors in this volume, including\u00a0Wesley Ariarajah (Former Director of WCC Interfaith department and Professor Emeritus of Ecumenical Theology at Drew University), Fr. K. M. George (Orthodox theologian), Preman Niles (Sri Lankan theologian) and Jayakiran Sebastian (Dean, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia).<\/p>\n<p>World Council of Churches Publications makes this important book available, and it can be purchased\u00a0at the American Academy of Religion conference in Atlanta, GA this year (WCC Publications booth 613), or through amazon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Light-Nations-Presence-Ecumenical-Twentieth\/dp\/2825416703\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Light-<wbr \/>Nations-Presence-Ecumenical-<wbr \/>Twentieth\/dp\/2825416703<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGCM visiting researcher Jesudas\u00a0Athyal&#8217;s edited book\u00a0A Light to the Nations: The Indian Presence in the Ecumenical Movement in the Twentieth Century is now available.\u00a0 There are a range of contributors in this volume, including\u00a0Wesley Ariarajah (Former Director of WCC Interfaith department and Professor Emeritus of Ecumenical Theology at Drew University), Fr. K. M. George (Orthodox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1992,1999,2037],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7394,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}