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Receptive ecumenism as transformative ecclesial learning
Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?'. This demands more than viewing gifts from another tradition as objects of reception. Receiving with integrity also involves a transformation of the church as subject in the act of reception. It represents the church in a mode of 'ecclesial learning'. Since the publication of Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism (2008), this fresh ecumenical strategy has been adopted, critiqued, and developed in different Christian traditions, and in local, national, and international settings, including the most recent bilateral dialogue of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III). This volume shows how Receptive Ecumenism is being received 'with dynamic integrity' in Christian communities representing different ecclesial traditions and geographies. The potential for such ecumenical ecclesial learning is illustrated in respect of recurrent ecclesial problems, such as the understanding and practice of ministry. Throughout the book, and particularly in the final part, the contributors draw on Scripture, hermeneutics, and pneumatology to offer a critical reflection on how Receptive Ecumenism itself implements ecclesial learning. These thirty-eight essays by academics, church leaders, and ecumenical practitioners show how Receptive Ecumenism has matured since its launch not only in terms of ecclesial application and geographical breadth, but also in critical depth.
Part I : Receiving receptive ecumenism across the traditions. Unity and universality, locality and diversity in Anglicanism / Rowan Williams -- Unity and universality, locality and diversity according to Baptist thinking about the Church / Paul S. Fiddes -- Receptive ecclesial learning through ecumenical engagement : an Orthodox perspective / Tamara Grdzelidze -- Receptive ecumenism and the dynamics of development within Pentecostalism / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen -- Foundations and openings for ecclesial learning : a Catholic perspective / Donald Bolen -- The call to holiness : Catholics and Methodists in dialogue / David M. Chapman -- To receive from each other, first receive each other : receptive ecumenism and the Global Christian Forum / Sarah Rowland Jones -- Finnish Luther studies, Lutheran dialogues, and ecclesial learning / Risto Saarinen, Minna Hietamäki -- Reformed Catholicity : Catholic learning with Calvin, Barth, Brown & Co / Donald W. Norwood -- Part II : Receiving in relation to our difficulties. Receptive ecumenism and ARCIC III / Anthony T. Currer -- What does Rome have to learn from Geneva? Whole-Body ecclesiology and the inductive turn / Paul Lakeland -- 'Mutual flourishing' in the Church of England : receiving a gift from the Orthodox theological tradition / Gabrielle Thomas -- Women's ministry : a hidden opening for ecumenical discussion / Susan A. Ross -- Developing Catholic understanding and practice of ordained ministry through receptive learning / Richard Lennan -- Re-receiving Catholic eucharistic theology from the hymns of John and Charles Wesley / Peter Phillips -- Not problems but pioneers : interchurch families and receptive ecumenism / Diane Ryan -- Learning to love differently well : human sexuality, the Churches, and receptive ecumenism / Linda C. Nicholls -- Part III : Receptive ecclesial learning in international perspective -- Receptive ecumenism and the local church / Marcus Pound -- Ecumenical involvement between US Black and White churches revisited : old obstacles and new opportunities / Sandra L. Barnes -- Receptive ecumenism in African perspective : beyond the scandal of a divided foreign religion / Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator -- Receptive ecumenism in a Latin American context : Catholic and Pentecostalist learning in relation to Mariology / Peter J. Casarella -- Unlikely siblings? Pentecostal ethico-theological insights from Catholic teaching on Mary / Néstor Medina -- Australian practices of receptive ecumenism / Geraldine Hawkes -- Comparative theology's interesting asymmetries with receptive ecumenism / Francis X. Clooney -- Two-eyed vision : a Sufi perspective on the both/and structure of receptive ecumenism / John O'Brien -- Part IV : Learning to be receptive ecclesial learners : discerning the dynamics of ecclesial learning. A total ethic for a broken body : receptive ecumenism's hermeneutical virtue / Gregory A. Ryan -- What is the spirit saying to the churches through the laments of the faithful? / Bradford E. Hinze -- Revelation, sensus fidelium, and receptive ecumenism / Ormond Rush -- What prevents Christian churches from learning? / Jeff Astley -- Living church : practical theology as a locus for ecumenical learning / Clare Watkins -- Breaking the bread of the word together. Receiving scripture again from one another / Mike Higton -- Learning to be church : virtues and practices leading towards Koinonia in Colossians and Acts / Vicky Balabanski, Michael Trainor -- Interdependence, need, and reciprocal asymmetry in the Body of Christ : a reading of 1 Corinthians 12 / John M.G. Barclay -- Mature ecumenism's daring future : learning from the Gospel of John for the twenty-first century / David F. Ford -- Receiving the spirit of ecclesial reform. Towards a spirituality of receptive ecumenical learning / Catherine E. Clifford -- A discipline for living according to the spirit : Chiara Lubich and receptive ecumenism / Callan Slipper -- Receptive ecumenism and the virtues / Antonia Pizzey -- Growing into the fullness of Christ : receptive ecumenism as a way of ecclesial conversion / Paul D. Murray.
edited by Paul D. Murray, Gregory A. Ryan, Paul Lakeland.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2022