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Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Excommunication

Ecclesiology, 2014
The practice of excommunication is first described in the New Testament as the conscious decision by the faithful community to exclude one of its own from the celebration of the Eucharist. It is a decision rooted in medicinal hopefulness, where the community excludes an offender from active participation in its sacramental life while always maintaining
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Individual Cups? Law, Ecclesiology and Eucharist

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2010
I write after the advice of the archbishops in July 2009 on restricting the use of the common cup has been withdrawn. It came under attack during its period of currency, not only on the grounds that it was medically quite unnecessary, but also on the interesting grounds that it was in violation of the Sacrament Act 1547.
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Sobornostand eucharistic ecclesiology: Aleksei Khomiakov and his successors

International journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2011
Ecclesiology is a relatively new branch of theological inquiry, and is still in process of formation. The first Orthodox thinker to reflect in an original and creative manner upon the nature of the Church was Aleksei Khomiakov. He based his ecclesiology on the notion of sobornost, signifying ‘conciliarity’ and unanimity in freedom. He insisted that the
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Pentecostal Ecclesiology and Eucharistic Hospitality: Toward a Systematic and Ecumenical Account of the Church

Pneuma, 2010
AbstractA systematic and ecumenical ecclesiology among Pentecostals is still in the making. The present article suggests that eucharistic hospitality is a suitable starting point for this endeavor. This notion exceeds the traditional confines of a sacramental approach to the nature of the church by rooting the Christian community more firmly in the ...
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12 Catholic Learning and Orthodoxy—The Promise and Challenge of Eucharistic Ecclesiology

2008
Abstract This chapter focuses on the very fruitful decade for international dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox, namely, the 1980s, which saw the production of three major agreed statements: ‘The Mystery of the Church and of the Eucharist in the Light of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity’ (1982); ‘Faith, Sacraments and the Unity of the
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“An Exchange of Gifts”: Benedict XVI’s Eucharistic Ecclesiology as an Approach to Ecumenism

philippiniana Sacra
Christian unity, or the “ecumenical movement,” is one of Joseph Ratzinger’s (turn Benedict XVI) most apparent apostolates during his Pontificate. His thought on the matter is a development of the theologies developed in the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium and John Paul II’s Ut Unum Sint, borrowing the words “exchange of gifts,” which affirms ...
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