Pathways for Ecclesial Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting Ecumenical Method

ISBN-13: 9781137571113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 217 str.

Miriam Haar; Mark D. Chapman

Opis

While, historically, most attention has focused on Catholic-Protestant relations in Ireland, there continue to be important dialogues between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans and Anglicans, and Presbyterians and Baptists. With increased globalization, doctrinal shifts and expansion, migration, evangelism, and declining membership, the relations between and among Christian denominations have become increasingly dynamic and important. New forms of dialogue as well as reinvigoration of the old patterns of sharing and communication are vital to renewing and updating ecumenical and interfaith movements. This volume revolves around Intra and Inter-Church Issues and features representative essays from scholars, clergy, and laity across many different denominations and cultural identities. The contributors to Pathways for Ecclesial Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century identify myriad obstacles currently standing in the way of dialogue both within churches and between churches. They dissect the problems that often prevent churches from moving toward a realization of important common ground. They then move on to discuss how these obstacles might be dissolved or circumvented. In short, this volume explores all the ways through which ecclesial dialogue can be re-energized and adapted for a new century.

Spis treści

1. Dia-Logos: Reflections on different forms of inter-Christian dialogue and their possibilities; Dagmar Heller 2. Communion Ecclesiology: Ideology or Path to Dialogue?; Dennis M. Doyle 3. 'Christ as Primary Sacrament': Ways to Ecumenical convergence in Sacramental Ecclesiology; C. Pierson Shaw 4. Can Hard Questions Soften Relations? Some Observations on Dialogical Method in the International Roman Catholic-Classical Pentecostal Dialogue; Jelle Creemers History and Ecclesial Dialogue 5. The Burdens of History: Must Tribalism always Prevail?; John W. de Gruchy 6. The Franciscan Disputes, Leuenberg Concord and the Florentine Union Lessons for Divided Christianity; Vladimir Latinovic Ministry, Authority and Ecclesial Dialogue 7. Episcopacy in the Pentecostal Tradition; Elieser Valentin 8. Interpretive Leadership and Cultural Intelligence: A Pathway Towards Christian Unity; Craig S. Hendrickson Dialogue, Context and Praxis 9. The False Certainty of Closure: Ecumenical Dialogue, New Evangelization and Roman Catholic Identity in A Secular Age; Brianne Jacobs 10. Ecumenism as Unity for Struggle: Looking Again at the Ecumenical Cause in India; Viju Wilson 11. Virgo ecclesia facta: the Virgin Mary and Ecumenical Ecclesiology; Daniela Del Gaudio 12. Chevetogne: its Origins and Orientations; Thaddée Barnas The Future of Ecclesial Dialogue 13. Making a Common Vision of the Church Possible; William Henn OFM Cap 14. A New, Socio-Cultural Agenda in the Quest for the Unity of the Church: Socio-cultural identities in the Faith and Order document: Nature and Mission of the Church; Eduardus Van der Borght

O autorze

Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK. He is also Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK.