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The European Vision and the Churches The European Vision and the Churches This page was generated automatically upon download from the Globethics.net Library. More information on Globethics.net see https://www.globethics.net. Data and content policy of Globethics.net Library repository see https:// repository.globethics.net/pages/policy Item Type Book Authors Burton, Win Publisher CEC at Globethics.net Rights Creative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5) Download date 10/10/2021 13:51:56 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/222250 1 ISBN 978-2-88931-053-1 CEC CEC 1 The EuropeanThe VisionChurches the and The European Vision and the Churches The European Vision The Legacy of Marc Lenders and the Churches The Legacy of Marc Lenders This is a book about centres: the centre of a pastor’s lifelong ministry, the centre of the European Union, and the centre of Europe’s ecumenical community. For more than thirty years Pastor Marc Lenders lived out his vocation bringing Christians from across traditions and across Europe into deep relationship with their unique social, Win Burton cultural, and political context. Through his eyes discover how Marc Lenders coura- geously signed up for a job in 1966 that had no description and upon his retire- ment in 1999 left a growing and vibrant legacy of dialogue, debate, and engagement between the churches of Europe and the political institutions that represent its people. Win Burton (Hagenbuch) graduated in modern languages just as the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community. Helmut von Verschuer suggested a stage in the European Commission in 1973, Burton Win and subsequently that she join the small staff of the Ecumenical Centre in Brussels in 1974 where she worked closely with Marc Lenders until 1984. This anecdotal and personal account of the life and work of the Ecumenical Centre from 1966 to 1999 has been compiled by them together. Globethics.net The European Vision and the Churches The Legacy of Marc Lenders The European Vision and the Churches The Legacy of Marc Lenders Win Burton Globethics.net CEC No. 1 Edition CEC at Globethics.net Director: Prof. Dr. Christoph Stückelberger. Founder and Executive Director of Globethics.net Series Editor: Rev. Dr. Guy Liagre, General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches CEC Globethics.net CEC 1 Win Burton, The European Vision and the Churches: The Legacy of Marc Lenders Geneva: Globethics.net, 2015 ISBN 978-2-88931-053-1 (online version) ISBN 978-2-88931-054-8 (print version) © 2015 Globethics.net with CEC Managing Editor: Ignace Haaz Globethics.net Conference of European Churches (CEC) Head Office Ecumenical Centre 150 route de Ferney Rue Joseph II, 174 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland 1000 Brussels, Belgium Website: Website www.ceceurope.org www.globethics.net/publications Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] All web links in this text have been verified as of March 2015. This book can be downloaded for free from the Globethics.net Library, the leading global online library on ethics: www.globethics.net. © The Copyright is the Creative Commons Copyright 2.5. This means: Globethics.net grants the right to download and print the electronic version, to distribute and to transmit the work for free, under three conditions: 1) Attribution: The user must attribute the bibliographical data as mentioned above and must make clear the license terms of this work; 2) Non-commercial. The user may not use this work for commercial purposes or sell it; 3) No change of text. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author’s moral rights. Globethics.net can give permission to waive these conditions, especially for reprint and sale in other continents and languages. Table of Contents Forword ........................................................................................ 7 Editorial Introduction ............................................................... 11 1 Marc Lenders: Who was (and Who is) this Man? The First Steps ........................................................................... 13 2 In the Beginning ..................................................................... 21 3 The Early Years 1966-1974 ................................................... 31 Institutions in Progress I: Christian Involvement in Europe as Individuals and as Churches .............................. 55 4 The Conference of Roehampton and the Years 1974-1982 ........................................................... 59 Institutions in Progress II: Keeping Pace with Developments within the EEC ................. 76 5 The Conference of Interlaken and the Years 1982-1990 ........................................................... 83 Institutions in Progress III: Take a Deep Breath ................ 115 6 EECCS and CEC 1990-1999 ............................................... 123 Institutions in Progress IV: Is There Still Leeway to Develop Europe? ............................ 183 7 Relations with the Roman Catholics in Brussels ............... 189 8 Relations with the European Community Institutions ..... 199 9 Particular Topics Covered in the Work ............................. 215 9.1 Agriculture ............................................................................ 215 9.2 Development Aid .................................................................. 221 9.3 South(ern) Africa .................................................................. 223 9.4 Ecology and Economy .......................................................... 226 9.5 Social Policy, Poverty ........................................................... 228 10 Epilogue by Marc Lenders One Long, Hard Look Back and Self-Evaluation ................. 235 FOREWORD An overview of almost forty years’ engagement on the European scene is quite some undertaking, since history never feels like history when you are living through it. But man is a history-making animal who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. The value of this book, written by Win Burton and Marc Lenders, is that it makes clear that if we want to understand today, we have to look back at yesterday. In actually doing this, the authors have opened up an important chapter in the passionate story of the Ecumenical movement in Europe. As they attempt to reconstruct scenes from history, revive their echoes and rekindle the urgency and drive of those former days, they show that humankind can never lie down on the tracks of history waiting for the train of the future to run over it. They do this by presenting more than a mere compilation of facts. The facts represent only the skeleton. They endow them with life, clothe them in the dress of the period, and enable them to rouse the sympathies of those following in successive generations. In the introduction, there is an apologia for adopting a biographical perspective. But is it not a fact of life that there is really no history, only biography? Is history not the essence and accumulation of countless biographies? At a moment in history where the European Ecumenical movement is setting out on a new track, this publication is particularly timely. It is all the more welcome as Lucian N. Leustean has already indicated in his book, “The Ecumenical Movement and the Making of the European Community” (OUP, 2014) that one of the most fascinating journeys among the responses of Churches to the evolution of the European 8 The European Vision and the Churches Community is that taken by the Ecumenical movement. Furthermore, many Churches only began to take European affairs seriously after the fall of Communism. A look at the past reminds us of how far we have come – yet in how short a time. Voltaire – Marc is as French as he is Belgian and Dutch – asked in his Philosophical Dictionary: “What would constitute useful history?” His answer was “that which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.” Being a Protestant pastor, Marc Lenders knows very well that history is the open Bible: historians, like theologians, are not priests expounding an infallible perspective: their function is to teach people to read and reflect on history for themselves. We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of “do’s” and “don’ts” for the Ecumenical movement: we need books, time and silence. At times I suspect Marc was in a very difficult position professionally, with an insecure financial situation and working in a highly political context: the authors do not shrink from describing such moments in their history realistically and very subtly, but they still hit you smack in the face. The history of the Ecumenical movement is never above the mêlée, but like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts and debris along its course. The authors describe a series of events, each with its own touch of pleasure or grimace. Meanwhile, everything is written in such a manner that it can be used for future Ecumenical work as a huge early warning system, and be more than a journalistic story just reporting yesterday’s events. Their intention is to recover the past and introduce it to the present for the purposes of the future. Foreword 9 This book – the first one in a new series of CEC publications – must serve two masters, the past and the present. Let’s take from the altars of the past as described with passion by Win Burton and Marc Lenders the fire – not the ashes. Then, remembering that Memoirs are the backstairs of history, we will also discover that the history of the Ecumenical movement is a kind of introduction to a host
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