RT Article
T1 Synodality and primacy: reflections from the Australian Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue
JF Pacifica
VO 28
IS 2
SP 137
OP 148
A1 Edwards, Denis 1943-2019
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1647480752
AB A fundamental level of Receptive Ccumenism is that of the reception by a dialoguing church of an institutional charism of a partner church as a gift of the Spirit. It is proposed here that in the Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue in Australia, this kind of receptivity has been evident in two ways. First, at least in part through this dialogue, the Lutheran Church of Australia has come to a new reception of episcopacy. Second, in and through this same dialogue, Roman Catholic participants have come to see that their church has much to receive from the Lutheran Church of Australia with regard to synodality, above all in fully involving the lay faithful in synodal structures of church life.