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The ecumenical movement is a dynamic reality in constant transformation according to the new times, the new contexts and the new subjects that are integrated in the dialogue about oikoumene, such as cultures and religions. The objective of this study is to investigate how this fact affects the reconfiguration of the semantic universe of the concept "ecumenism" nowdays. It proceeds by analyzing the challenges and contributions that the new cultural and religious actors present to ecumenical dialogue in the continent; and it concludes that significant elements emerge for the elaboration of a Latin American ecumenical theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article stems from a research about the rules of the Jewish-Christian dialogue from the post-Holocaust period up to the present time. The undisputed starting point of this dialogue is the declaration of the Second Vatican Council Nostra Aetate, which inaugurates it historically. This article discusses and demonstrates an essential part of the work, namely, the main phases or stages -pre-dialogue, cleansing phase, existential phase, dialo-gical phase, etc.- of Jewish-Christian contemporary dialogue that made a rapprochement between the two religious parties possible. The research on the stages of Jewish-Christian dialogue aims to show the attempts of the partners to create and maintain a permanent horizontal level of dialogue and describe the current phase of dialogue as well as its unresolved issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the reality of pluralism, this article proposes that ecumenical dialogue and dialogue of believers with unbelievers avoids both fundamentalism and secularism. This means, it is argued, a strong recognition of religious freedom and the abandonment of a relativistic conception of democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]