Let the Church be Church

Mission, ecumenism and policy in John A. Mackay’s thought

Abstract

This present article aims become know the participation of John A. Mackay in the religious and political scenario, and also, his contribution to the development of the ecumenism in Brazil and in Latin America. As a delimitation of the object, the research will examine the protestant religious belief as a structuring and organizing element of practices and values in the configuration of ecumenical relations amongst different religious denominations. The study, however, is inserted into other dimensions as the cultural, social and political history of the continent, Europe and the United States. The approach, therefore, will collate as perspectives of cultural history in which Mackay is emerged, for a Commission, the passage across Spain of Miguel de Unamuno, his stay in Peru, the family history, the problem with fundamentalism and an academic reorientation of Princeton Seminary. Ecumenical authors will be cited as Emilio Castro and José Míguez Bonino and evangelicals how Samuel Escobar, José René Padilla and Pedro Arana.