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And in many countries, national ecumenical organizations have undergone radical changes to build a fellowship that expresses more fully the breadth of the Christian community within their land, as church leaders have concluded that new ecumenical wine cannot be poured into old wineskins.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, "but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved" (Matt.

But the strategy failed, and as this anthology makes clear, African Americans soon began to stretch the new wineskins of their oppressors' language, fashioning a distinctive, original, and ultimately world-shaping musical tongue and vocabulary, one that gave voice to their own African heritage and to the length and breadth of their sufferings, struggles, and prayers in the long road to freedom.

The visions are built on the powerful imageries, symbols and parables of the baseleia: a new creation, new humanity, new life, a new model, a new heart, new mind, new wine and new wineskins. It is a new Christ-centred vision and culture.

We want neither new wine nor new wineskins. God has burst the old institutions and the people know it.

NEW WINE INTO FRESH WINESKINS. Fasting -- abstaining entirely from or limiting food -- serves a number of purposes, from purely medical reasons to more spiritual or religious ones.

Jesus has said, "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost.

As Sandra Schneiders explained in her book New Wineskins, some Christians experience a call to make the religious dimension of their life uniquely important and central--so much so, that no other life commitment is possible for them.

Jesus said: "Men do not pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.

New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology.

This issue is raised explicitly by Frans Wijsen, a missiologist from Nijmegen, in his essay "New Wine in Old Wineskins? Intercultural Theology Instead of Missiology." His conclusion is that there is still need for both disciplines, between which one ought to discern.

Fisher: Jesus, wise Jewish teacher that he was, warned of the consequences of trying to put new wine into old wineskins. To some extent this is what is happening today, as our Catholic theologians valiantly struggle to pour the new wine of the [Second Vatican] Council into the old wineskins of pre-conciliar systematic theology.