Ecumenical Openness, a Mark of the Church? A Trinitarian Model of Baptismal Efficacy, Discipleship, and Ecclesial Belonging
The ecumenical movement, and particularly my own Roman Catholic Church, has made significant progress in mutual recognition of baptism, prayer and dialogue between churches, and in common humanitarian and ecological work. We have been stymied, however, in the full recognition of our ecumenical partn...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Ecclesiology
Year: 2025, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-33 |
| Further subjects: | B
Receptive Ecumenism
B Ministry B Ecclesiology B Ecumenical Theology B Karl Rahner B Mutual recognition B church unity B Sacraments |
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| Summary: | The ecumenical movement, and particularly my own Roman Catholic Church, has made significant progress in mutual recognition of baptism, prayer and dialogue between churches, and in common humanitarian and ecological work. We have been stymied, however, in the full recognition of our ecumenical partners’ eucharistic ministry, as well as by other aspects of ministry. Receptive ecumenism and growth in communion offer significant recourse for gradually developing the tools for this recognition. In this essay, I offer a trinitarian, baptismal, and cosmic context for discerning new possibilities for the recognition of ecumenical partners that do not centre their ecclesiology on episcopal ministry. Full recognition is of course beyond the scope of this article; I seek only to show how our shared trinitarian theology and cosmology might ground new approaches to recognition, particularly in grappling with different theologies of baptism and ministry. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5316 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ecclesiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10049 |
