Creative Remembering--and Prudent Forgetting--on Our Way to Christian Unity
The distance from Pope Pius XI's Mortalium animos in 1928, forbidding Catholic participation in gatherings of non-Catholics, to the Joint Declaration on Justification signed by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999, beggars measurement. The landscape had to change, and it was a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-309 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDJ Ecumenism |
| Further subjects: | B
Church; Unity
B MORTALIUM Animos (Book) B Concord B PIUS XI, Pope, 1857-1939 B Religious Aspects B Ecumenical Movement |
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| Summary: | The distance from Pope Pius XI's Mortalium animos in 1928, forbidding Catholic participation in gatherings of non-Catholics, to the Joint Declaration on Justification signed by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999, beggars measurement. The landscape had to change, and it was a whole range of creative rememberings and prudent forgettings that altered the lay of the theological and ecclesial land. We need to be alert to the way memory works; its shape-shifting is influenced by serendipity, art, academic fashion, the counter-intuitive, chronological snobbery (and regret), and research itself. Denominational bones ache, while ecumenical hearts are strangely warmed. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-3937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2017.0032 |
