Globalization and an experience of new dimensions in our intellectual culture beyond what is symbolized by the category “modern” form the background of this work in ecclesiology. Globalization refers to the growing interdependence of peoples who formerly lived their lives separate from and ignorant of each other and thus in many ways were historically independent. Globalization does not, however, imply an automatic homogenization but seems to entail a heightened sense of the other as
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