R. David Nelson is Acquisition Editor for Baker Academic and Brazos Press, USA.Charles Raith II is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Paradosis Center for Theology and Scripture at John Brown University, USA.

• PrefaceCh. 1: Introduction: What is Ecumenism? Toward a Definition of A Perplexing TermPart I: The History of the Modern Ecumenical Movement Ch.2: From Edinburgh 1910 to the World Council of Churches: Early Trajectories of the Modern Ecumenical ImpulseCh. 3: The Great Decade: Ecumenical Advances During the 1960sCh. 4: Conciliar Breakthroughs and the Flowering of the Ecumenical DialoguesCh. 5: The Evangelical Trajectory of Modern EcumenismPart II: Three Ecumenical Challenges for Christianity's Third MillenniumCh. 6: The Problem of Basic DifferencesCh. 7: The Challenge of Ecumenical ReceptionCh. 8: Criticisms of the Modern Ecumenical MovementEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Nelson and Raith provide an introduction to ecumenism that is positive though not uncritical, concise yet thorough, scholarly but accessible.