Baptist World Alliance Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Ecumenical relations== The Baptist World Alliance is involved in [[Ecumenism|ecumenical]] dialogues, including with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[World Methodist Council]].<ref>Geoffrey Wainwright, Paul McPartlan, ''The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies'', Oxford University Press, UK, 2021, p. 175</ref> One series of International Conversations between the BWA and the Catholic Church took place from between 1984 and 1988 moderated by the Reverend Dr David T. Shannon, sometime President of [[Andover Newton Theological School]], and the Most Reverend Bede Heather, Bishop of Parramatta.<ref>Angelo Maffeis, ''Ecumenical Dialogue'', Liturgical Press, USA, 2005, p. 44-45</ref> While this dialogue produced the report called ''Summons to Witness to Christ in Today's World'', the second phase did not push through because of opposition from within the Baptist World Alliance itself.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate|last=Cassidy|first=Edward|publisher=Paulist Press|year=2005|isbn=0809143380|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ecumenisminterre00cass/page/68 68]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ecumenisminterre00cass/page/68}}</ref> Negotiations continued, however, so that a series of consultations transpired from 2000 to 2003. During this period the Baptists and Catholics discussed important doctrines that divide these denominations.<ref name=":1" /> These second series of conversations resulted in formal meetings between 2006 and 2010. The current Co-Moderators are [[Paul Fiddes]], Professor of Systematic Theology in the [[University of Oxford]] and formerly Principal of [[Regent's Park College, Oxford]], and [[Arthur J. Serratelli]], Bishop of Paterson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prounione.urbe.it/dia-int/b-rc/e_b-rc-info.html|title=Baptist—Roman Catholic International Conversations|publisher=[[Centro Pro Unione]]|access-date=11 August 2009}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page