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An Ecumenical Spirituality

Religions, 2023
The modern ecumenical movement is a part of a wider ecumenism which expresses the universal character of the Christian faith. It is an approach to faith which is aware of the world-wide context of church life and the variety of the cultures and communities where it is practiced.
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Juridical Ecumenism [PDF]

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2012
The ecumenical movement seeks to achieve Christian unity through greater visible communion between the separated (or divided) institutional Churches of Christianity worldwide. The practice of ecumenism and ecumenical theology have developed principally at the doctrinal and theological levels.
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Normal ecumenism: Ecumenism for the long haul [PDF]

Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology, 2019
Ecumenical change is best understood as punctuated change, in analogy to change in scientific traditions and in evolution. The ecumenical movement represents a moment of punctuated or revolutionary change in church relations. We are now at the point of the emergence of a new normal, post-revolutionary situation in which further breakthroughs are not ...
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The logic of idealization in political theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fundamental ambiguity over idealization's intended inferential logic: the precise way in which idealizations might yield normative knowledge.
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Moral praise and moral performance

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to some, luck forms an inevitable part of admirable moral agency. According to others, it is incompatible with a basic principle of moral worth. What's the issue? Is there a ‘problem’ of moral luck; or are there many, or none? With reference to the practice of moral praise, I suggest that there is no single problem of moral luck as ...
Hallvard Lillehammer
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Online Communion, Christian Community, and Receptive Ecumenism: A Holy Week Ethnography during COVID-19

, 2020
A significant liturgical controversy of the COVID-19 pandemic is whether Christians should celebrate communion online. Much of the discussion of online communion has been based on theological and theoretical claims, rather than concrete observations and ...
S. K. Johnson
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An Ecumenical Matter?

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2018
Ridge defends a form of hybrid expressivism where normative judgements are constituted by two elements, normative perspectives and representational beliefs that invoke standards our normative perspectives determine. He thinks this view will enable him to ‘offload logical complexity’ onto the latter, representational components of our judgements ...
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What has Nicaea to do with Canterbury? Creeds, Councils, Tradition, and the Fathers in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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