Ulrich Duchrow is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg and a co-founder of Kairos Europa. A theologian, social ethicist, and long-time activist, he helped to launch the conciliar process for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation at the WCC’s 6th Assembly in Vancouver in 1983.

Acknowledgement Foreword to the English Edition Foreword to the German Edition 1. Progressive Perspectives for Society, Churches, and Theology: The 1960s The Team of the Interdisciplinary Institute FEST The Marxism Commission Discussions between Theology and Natural Sciences Peace Research and the Peace Movement Outlook 2. The Lutheran World Federation—Ties with the Confessing Church Tradition: 1970–77 The Department of Studies The Challenges of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights (Project Area III) The Challenges Posed by Marxism in Different Cultural Contexts, Especially in China (Project Area IV) Shape and Identity of the Church, Sent into the World to Respond to the Challenges (Project Area I and Ecclesiology Study) Confessing Christ—in What Form of the Ecumenical Movement? 3. Ecumenical Grassroots Work for Just Structures: 1978 and Onward Parish Work in Denzlingen Regional Office for Mission and Ecumenism in North Baden At the Faculty of Theology at Heidelberg University and at the Hearing on the International Financial System The Ecumenical Network for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation in Baden (1983) 4. The Conciliar Process for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation: 1983–90 Preparation for the WCC Assembly in Vancouver The Great Moment of the WCC Assembly in Vancouver in 1983 and the Conciliar Process The Development of the Conciliar Process in the 1980s—the Framework Plan The First International Consultation in Glion and the Ecumenical Processes and Assemblies Preceding the World Convocation in Seoul in 1990 The World Convocation for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation in Seoul, 1990 5. The Rejection of Imperial Capitalism in International Church Organizations: 1990–2013 The Initiative of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) on the Economy as a Confessional Issue (1990–97) The Reformed Processus Confessionis, as taken up by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation The Assemblies of LWF, WARC, and WCC Pope Francis: The Joy of the Gospel (2013) From 2013 to the WCC’s 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe in 2022: Pilgrimage and the Zacchaeus Campaign 6. Kairos Europa and “Radicalizing Reformation”: 1990 and Onward The Origins of Kairos Europa in the European Ecumenical Assembly in Basel (1989) The People’s Parliament in Strasbourg on 1492–1992 and the European Internal Market Alternatives to the Prevailing Financial System (1994–96) The 2nd European Ecumenical Assembly in Graz, the European Kairos Document, and Civil Society Alternatives to Neoliberalism Development Needs a New Financial Order (2000–2002) Participation in the Processus Confessionis of the Ecumenical Movement (2003–13) Kairos between Busan (2013) and Karlsruhe (2022) “Radicalizing Reformation—Provoked by the Bible and Today’s Crises” 7. Interreligious Solidarity for Justice in Palestine-Israel The Historical and Biblical Background Interreligious Solidarity for Justice in Palestine-Israel in Response to Kairos Palestine The 2022 Assembly of the WCC and the German Resistance to Solidarity with Palestine Palestinian Voices on Israel’s Settler Colonialism, Apartheid, and Misuse of the Bible Conclusion: What Can We Learn from 50 Years of Work for Justice, Peace, and Life? From Tax Justice to the Transformation of the Capitalist System Areas of Transformation: Property, Money, Labour, and Relation to Nature The New Significance of the Geopolitical Peace Issue Who Can Implement the Critical Analysis and the New Visions?