The Amazon Synod: Synodality as a Meeting Place for Diversity
With the Amazon Synod as a starting point, an approach to synodality is being developed that considers the relationships of local to global, that is to say the concept of universality as the convergence of diverse characteristics. As a new topic and paradigm, the Amazon transcends the Amazon, confer...
| Published in: | Concilium |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
2021
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| In: |
Concilium
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church, Bischofssynode (2019 : Rom)
/ Amazon region
/ Universal church
/ Local church
/ Synodales Prinzip
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBR Latin America KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church NBN Ecclesiology RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Church
B Councils & synods |
| Summary: | With the Amazon Synod as a starting point, an approach to synodality is being developed that considers the relationships of local to global, that is to say the concept of universality as the convergence of diverse characteristics. As a new topic and paradigm, the Amazon transcends the Amazon, conferring a planetary reach on the regional synod. As a consequence of the Amazon Synod, the periphery that came to its heart, provoking instability and fear, the Church is being challenged to move away from its internal focus so it can embrace the interpellations of the Spirit which, in today's Church, come above all from the southern hemisphere. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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