Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning

This volume proposes a fresh strategy for ecumenical engagement - 'Receptive Ecumenism' - that is fitted to the challenges of the contemporary context and has already been internationally recognised as making a distinctive and important new contribution to ecumenical thought and practice. Beyond this, the volume tests and illustrates this proposal by examining what Roman Catholicism in particular might fruitfully learn from its ecumenical others. Challenging the tendency for ecumenical studies to ask, whether explicitly or implicitly, 'What do our others need to learn from us?', this volume presents a radical challenge to see ecumenism move forward into action by highlighting the opposite question 'What can we learn with integrity from our others?' This approach is not simply ecumenism as shared mission, or ecumenism as problem-solving and incremental agreement but ecumenism as a vital long-term programme of individual, communal and structural conversion driven, like the Gospel that inspires it, by the promise of conversion into greater life and flourishing. The aim is for the Christian traditions to become more, not less, than they currently are by learning from, or receiving of, each other's gifts. The 32 original essays that have been written for this unique volume explore these issues from a wide variety of denominational and disciplinary perspectives, drawing together ecclesiologists, professional ecumenists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational experts.

ISBN 0199587981   Pages 570 ISBN13 9780199587988 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 886 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 157 Publication date 06 May 2010   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 262.0011   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Contributors
		Abbreviations
PART I		VISION AND PRINCIPLES
		Prologue to Part I Acts 2: 1-13 by Philip Endean		3
1		Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Learning---Establishing the Agenda by Paul D. Murray		5
2		Receiving Gifts in Ecumenical Dialogue by Margaret O'Gara		26
3		Authentic Learning and Receiving---A Search for Criteria by Ladislas Orsy		39
4		Becoming Catholic Persons and Learning to Be a Catholic People by Philip Sheldrake		52
5		The Church---A School of Wisdom? by Nicholas Lash		63
6		áCredo Unam Sanctam Ecclesiam'---The Relationship Between the Catholic and the Protestant Principles in Fundamental Ecclesiology by Walter Kasper		78
7		Texts and Contexts---Hermeneutical Reflections on Receptive Ecumenism by Riccardo Larini		89
PART II		RECEPTIVE ECUMENICAL LEARNING THROUGH CATHOLIC DIALOGUE
		Prologue to Part II Philippians 1: 3-7 by Philip Endean		105
8		What Roman Catholics Have to Learn from Anglicans by Keith F. Pecklers		107
9		Receptive Catholic Learning Through Methodist-Catholic Dialogue by Michael E. Putney		122
10		Methodist Perspective on Catholic Learning by David M. Chapman		134
11		The International Lutheran---Roman Catholic Dialogue---An Example of Ecclesial Learning and Ecumenical Reception by William G. Rusch		149
12		Catholic Learning and Orthodoxy---The Promise and Challenge of Eucharistic Ecclesiology by Paul McPartlan		160
PART III		RECEPTIVE ECUMENISM AND CATHOLIC CHURCH ORDER
		Prologue 3 Part III Ephesians 4: 7, 11-16 by Philip Endean		179
13		Catholic Learning Concerning Apostolicity and Ecclesiality by James F. Puglisi		181
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