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Ecumenical Dialogue, Ecumenical Council, and Constantinople II

Toronto Journal of Theology, 1987
In the ecumenical dialogue between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, the issue of the status of the Ecumenical Councils of the undivided early Church has been of fundamental importance. All Roman Catholics and a great many Anglicans accord considerable authority to those councils as the 'Voice of the Church' on matters of doctrine.
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Ecumenical Political Dialogue

1991
Abstract The principal constituents of ecumenical politics are two practices: a certain kind of dialogue and a certain kind of tolerance. In chapter 3, in which I introduced the idea of ecumenical politics, I began to elaborate and defend ecumenical political dialogue; I gave several reasons for taking such dialogue seriously.
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Ecumenical Dialogue as Intercultural Encounter

Exchange, 2015
This paper provides an overview of a recent ecumenical dialogue, the one between the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht (2011-2014) and analyses the dialogue through the lens of intercultural theology, arguing that the fields of ecumenical dialogue and intercultural theology can be brought into conversation ...
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Christ and Ecumenical Dialogue

2010
Ratzinger’s ecumenical interests are genuine and based on personal acquaintance. Two of his more noted former doctoral students are the Greek Orthodox bishops Damaskinos Papandreou and Stylianos Harkianakis; both currently metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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Historical Scholarship and Ecumenical Dialogue

Horizons, 2017
I am honored to participate in this theological roundtable on the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. I do so as a lay Lutheran church historian. In spite of the editors’ “prompts,” the topic reminds me of that apocryphal final exam question: “Give a history of the universe with a couple of examples.” “What do we think are the ...
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Receptive Ecumenism through Asia’s triple dialogue theology

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 2015
The present article has as its premise that the objectives of Receptive Ecumenism, a method of engagement recently promoted in western churches, is already well captured by the Asian Church’s method of triple dialogue. Both emphasize the Christian community’s willingness to learn from rather than to teach their partners-in-dialogue.
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From Ecumenical Dialogue to Inter-Religious Dialogue

1999
It needs emphasizing here that neither the previous chapter nor this one, or indeed this book, is about the historical development of ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue. It is an attempt to show how the churches, due to changing historical situations and external pressures from the world outside, changed their understanding of the nature of ...
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The Future of Multilateral Ecumenical Dialogue

The Ecumenical Review, 2019
AbstractThis article offers an overview of work undertaken in multilateral ecumenical dialogue, as it has been conducted at the international level by the commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC), to clarify the issues discussed in this dialogue and the methods used.
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Justification within Recapitulation: Irenaeus in Ecumenical Dialogue

International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2020
AbstractJustification has a relatively minor place in Irenaeus's thought. He discusses it particularly in his polemics against Gnostic approaches to the Scriptures and to the law. Justification typically serves for Irenaeus within a broader, participatory framework of salvation.
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The Lord's Supper in Ecumenical Dialogue

Theology Today, 1965
“The prospect of a church union cannot expect an exactly agreed-upon theology of the eucharist. Any effort to unite the church on a precise definition would cause a union on any comprehensive basis to fail. This is one of the places where unity in diversity is essential. Having made this point, however, there is a sense in which an emerging consensus,
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