TY - JOUR N2 - Among the so-called lost icons of modern culture (as Rowan Williams once put it) holiness should be perhaps seen with a particular concern. Christianity has always perceived holiness as a universal calling which Christ’s disciples are never to neglect. The Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer emerges as a signifcant example of radical discipleship in his consistent and faithful pursuit of holiness. The one who believes in Christ is to follow Him not by withdrawing from this world but rather in the midst of the world as Christ himself lived and to „drink the earthly cup to the dregs like Christ himself”. Consequently, „holiness begins and ends with God and moves toward the needy of the world” (A. Lawrence). John Paul II would often stress that holiness is one of those precious signs of the Spirit’s active presence among all Christ’s followers which should play an ever more growing role in the ecumenical exchange of gifts. When Christians base their hope on the Lord’s prayer and not their own strength, they can trust that „the great ecumenism of holiness will not fail, with God’s help, to bring results” (John Paul II). L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/98006/PDF/Nowosad.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/98006 PY - 2011-2012 IS - Tom 6-7 EP - 122 DO - 10.24425/snt.2011-2012.112741 KW - holiness KW - ecumenism KW - Bonhoeffer KW - ecumenism of holiness A1 - Nowosad, Ks. Sławomir PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych DA - 2012 T1 - Holiness in an Ecumenical Perspective SP - 109 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/98006 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -