Receptive Ecumenism As Transformative Ecclesial Learning - Walking the Way to a Church Re-Formed

Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' The chapters in this volume, by academics, church leaders, and ecumenical practitioners, show how Receptive Ecumenism has grown and matured over the past two decades.

List of contents

• Part I. Receiving Receptive Ecumenism across the Traditions


• 1: Rowan Williams: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Anglicanism


• 2: Paul S. Fiddes: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity according to Baptist Thinking about the Church


• 3: Tamara Grdzelidze: Receptive Ecclesial Learning through Ecumenical Engagement: An Orthodox Perspective


• 4: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: Receptive Ecumenism and the Dynamics of Development within Pentecostalism


• 5: Donald Bolen: Foundations and Openings for Ecclesial Learning: A Catholic Perspective


• 6: David M. Chapman: The Call to Holiness: Catholics and Methodists in Dialogue


• 7: Sarah Rowland Jones: To Receive From Each Other, First Receive Each Other: Receptive Ecumenism and the Global Christian Forum


• 8: Risto Saarinen and Minna Hietamäki: Finnish Luther Studies, Lutheran Dialogues, and Ecclesial Learning


• 9: Donald W. Norwood: Reformed Catholicity: Catholic Calvin, Barth, Brown and Co.


• Part II. Receiving in Relation to Our Difficulties


• 10: Anthony T. Currer: Receptive Ecumenism and ARCIC III


• 11: Paul Lakeland: What Does Rome Have to Learn from Geneva? Whole-Body Ecclesiology and the Inductive Turn


• 12: Gabrielle Thomas: 'Mutual Flourishing' in the Church of England: Receiving a Gift from the Orthodox Theological Tradition


• 13: Susan A. Ross: Women's Ministry: A Hidden Opening for Ecumenical Discussion


• 14: Richard Lennan: Developing Catholic Understanding and Practice of Ordained Ministry through Receptive Learning


• 15: Peter Phillips: Re-receiving Catholic Eucharistic Theology from the Hymns of John and Charles Wesley


• 16: Diane Ryan: Not Problems but Pioneers: Interchurch Families and Receptive Ecumenism


• 17: Linda C. Nicholls: Learning to Love Differently Well: Human Sexuality, the Churches, and Receptive Ecumenism


• Part III. Receptive Ecclesial Learning in International Perspective


• 18: Marcus Pound: Receptive Ecumenism and the Local Church


• 19: Sandra L. Barnes: Ecumenical Involvement between US Black and White Churches Revisited: Old Obstacles and New Opportunities


• 20: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator SJ: Receptive Ecumenism in African Perspective: Beyond the Scandal of a Divided Foreign Religion


• 21: Peter J. Casarella: Receptive Ecumenism in a Latin American Context: Catholic and Pentecostalist Learning in Relation to Mariology


• 22: Néstor Medina: Unlikely Siblings? Pentecostal Ethico-theological Insights from Catholic Teaching on Mary


• 23: Geraldine Hawkes: Australian Practices of Receptive Ecumenism


• 24: Francis X. Clooney SJ: Comparative Theology's Interesting Asymmetries with Receptive Ecumenism


• 25: John O'Brien: Two-eyed Vision: A Sufi Perspective on the Both/And Structure of Receptive Ecumenism


• Part IV. Learning to be Receptive Ecclesial Learners


• Discerning the Dynamics of Ecclesial Learning


• 26: Gregory A. Ryan: A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism's Hermeneutical Virtue


• 27: Bradford E. Hinze: What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches through the Laments of the Faithful?


• 28: Ormond Rush: Revelation, Sensus Fidelium, and Receptive Ecumenism


• 29: Jeff Astley: What Prevents Christian Churches from Learning?


• 30: Clare Watkins: Living Church: Practical Theology as a Locus for Ecumenical Learning


• Breaking the Bread of the Word Together


• 31: Mike Higton: Receiving Scripture Again From One Another


• 32: Vicky Balabanski and Michael Trainor: Learning to be Church: Virtues and Practices Leading towards Koinonia in Colossians and Acts


• 33: John M.G. Barclay: Interdependence, Need, and Reciprocal Asymmetry in the Body of Christ: A Reading of 1 Corinthians 12


• 34: David F. Ford: Mature Ecumenism's Daring Future: Learning from the Gospel of John for the Twenty-First Century


• Receiving the Spirit of Ecclesial Reform


• 35: Catherine E. Clifford: Towards a Spirituality of Receptive Ecumenical Learning


• 36: Callan Slipper: A Discipline for Living According to the Spirit: Chiara Lubich and Receptive Ecumenism


• 37: Antonia Pizzey: Receptive Ecumenism and the Virtues


• 38: Paul D. Murray: Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion

About the author

Paul D. Murray is Professor of Systematic Theology, Dean of Catholic Studies, and founding Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. He served on the Editorial Board of Concilium International, is a former President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, a former member of the third phase of work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III), on which he continues as consultor, and has also served as consultor to the former Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. In addition to three books, he has contributed numerous essays to leading journals and scholarly collections. His holds an M.Litt (Durham) and a PhD (Cambridge).

Since completing a PhD (Durham, 2018), Gregory A. Ryan has worked on research projects, teaching, and publications in the fields of Receptive Ecumenism and contemporary Catholic ecclesiology, alongside designing and delivering formation programmes for lay and ordained ministry in the North of England. He was formerly Director of Formation for the Catholic Diocese of Hallam, UK.

Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley S.J. Professor of Catholic Studies and founding Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, where he has worked since 1981, with roles including chairperson of the Religious Studies Department and director of the Honors Program. In addition to his PhD from Vanderbilt University, he holds degrees in philosophy, divinity, and English. He is the author of ten books, and editor of two more, in the fields of Catholic ecclesiology, cultural theory, and religion and literature. In 2020 he received the Hellwig Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic intellectual life.

Summary

Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' The chapters in this volume, by academics, church leaders, and ecumenical practitioners, show how Receptive Ecumenism has grown and matured over the past two decades.

Product details

• Authors: Paul D. (Professor of Systematic Theology Murray
• Assisted by: Paul Lakeland (Editor), Lakeland Paul (Editor), Paul D. Murray (Editor), Murray Paul D. (Editor), Gregory A. Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192845108
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284510-8
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, ecumenism