Towards an Ecumenical Hermeneutics of Diversity: Some Remarks on the Hermeneutical Challenges of the Ecumenical Movement

The article discusses critically the hermeneutical concept of the document “A Treasure in Earthen Vessels” by the World Council of Churches. I argue for a concept of an ecumenical hermeneutics of diversity instead of the former paradigm of unity and consensual ecumenism. An ecumenical hermeneutics, understood as a hermeneutics of difference and diversity, is not the continuation by other means of consensual ecumenical agreement as we have hitherto known it, but rather a critical corrective to it.