Charting Churches in a Changing Europe: Charta Oecumenica and the Process of Ecumenical Encounter
The countries of Europe are seeking to redefine themselves, both individually and in relation to each other. This volume examines the role of the Christian churches at various levels of that process. The Charta Oecumenica , a ground-breaking document from the Conference of Churches in Europe and the...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam New York
Rodopi
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Series/Journal: | Currents of Encounter - Studies on the Contact between Christianity and Other Religions, Beliefs, an
v.v. 28 |
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Ecumenical Movement (Europe)
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| Summary: | The countries of Europe are seeking to redefine themselves, both individually and in relation to each other. This volume examines the role of the Christian churches at various levels of that process. The Charta Oecumenica , a ground-breaking document from the Conference of Churches in Europe and the Council of European Bishops' Conferences, aimed to set forth the ecumenical response of the European Christian Churches to the living out of faith in today's world. Four theologians, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Lutheran, respond to this document, assessing its strengths and the areas where further development is required. At least implicitly this discussion raises questions about the nature of catholicity and communion, a topic the following four essays address. What is catholicity, what happens when there is too strong an emphasis on the national church, and are there models of gradual church communion to which the churches could assent? Gradual communion sets out to attain full, including sacramental, unity and the final two essays explore how sacramental theology might assist in this process. Intro -- Table of Contents -- General Introduction: En Route to Koinonia: Church Communion in Transition -- Part I: Confessional Responses to the Charta Oecumenica -- Introduction -- The Significance of the Charta Oecumenica Today: Critical Comments from a Protestant Perspective -- An Assessment of the Charta Oecumenica from a Roman Catholic Perspective -- Church Communion and the Reception of Ecumenical Dialogues: An Orthodox Perspective -- Enough is Enough? Preconditions for Church Communion from a Lutheran Perspective -- Part II: Notions of Catholicity and Communion -- Introduction -- The Modern Inculturation Debate and the Catholicity of the Church -- The Catholicity of the Church: A Matrix of Faith and Life in View of God's Final Kingdom -- Uniting Europe as a Challenge to the Future of National Churches -- Gradual Church Communion as an Ecumenical Model? Some Remarks from a Roman Catholic Perspective -- Part III: The Sacramental Road to Unity -- Introduction -- The Roman Catholic Understanding of Sacramentality and Its Potential for Church Unity -- From the Sacramentality of the Church to the Sacramentality of the World -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Text of Charta Oecumenica -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Contributors. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-94-012-0302-9 90-420-2009-1 978-90-420-2009-2 |
