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.
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Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780191615290
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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