Catholic and Ecumenical: History and HopeTraces the reasons and implications of the Catholic Church's involvement in ecumenism and dialogue with people from other faith traditions. Solid, up-to-date scholarship. |
Contents
A Church to Change | 1 |
Church and Churches | 3 |
Families of Churches | 5 |
Arrival of East and West | 7 |
Ecumenical Viewing of EastWest Ecclesial Understandings | 9 |
Emergence of the Papacy | 11 |
Primacy Claim | 12 |
Changing Role for Bishops | 14 |
Calls for Reform Before the Reformation | 102 |
Groups Calling for Reform | 104 |
Theories about the Nature and Mission of the Church | 108 |
Reform Calls Continue | 109 |
The First Phase of the Reformation | 111 |
Lutheranism Today | 114 |
International LutheranRoman Catholic Dialogue | 115 |
The Second Phase of the Reformation | 119 |
Changing Role for the Laity | 15 |
Implications for Ecumenism | 16 |
Ecclesiastical Writing and Liturgical Texts | 17 |
No Salvation Outside the Church | 19 |
Teachings from Church Councils and the Papacy | 21 |
The Teaching of Pius XII in Mystici Corporis Christi | 22 |
The Catholic Culture | 24 |
Catholic Isolationism and Negativity | 25 |
A Changing Church | 31 |
Catholic Prophets of Unity | 32 |
Prophetic Theologians at the Service of the Church | 36 |
Movements Reaching into the Church | 40 |
Vatican II in Response | 44 |
Uniform No Longer | 53 |
This Thing Called Dialogue | 55 |
Scriptural Evidence | 57 |
Koinonia | 58 |
Christs Plan and Pauls Interpretation of It | 59 |
Patristic Evidence | 60 |
Churches in Communion in Patristic Times | 61 |
Empirewide Threats to the Communion | 65 |
Estranged Sisters | 73 |
The Importance of Symbols | 74 |
Catholic Arrival at a New Selfunderstanding | 75 |
Development in the Commissions Thinking | 76 |
Development of Contrasting Ecclesiologies | 78 |
The Universalism of the West | 79 |
Impact of Contrasting Doctrinal and Nontheological Items | 80 |
Eastern Catholic Churches | 84 |
Regional Reconciliations and the Arrival of Uniatism | 86 |
Eastern Catholic Churches Today | 87 |
The Orthodox Church | 89 |
OrthodoxCatholic Dialogue Today | 91 |
The Dialogue of Charity | 93 |
Sister Churches | 94 |
The Dialogue of Doctrine | 95 |
Reform to Reformation | 99 |
The Churchs Text on Unity | 100 |
Jean Calvin and John Knox | 120 |
ReformedPresbyterianism Today | 123 |
ReformedRoman Catholic Dialogue | 124 |
The Third Phase of the Reformation | 126 |
The Catholic Reformation | 138 |
Robert Bellarmine | 139 |
Reformation in England | 143 |
What Is the Hierarchy of Truths? | 146 |
The Story of English Reform | 148 |
Designing a Change | 149 |
European Contributions | 150 |
Real Beginnings of the English Reformation | 151 |
Anglican Identity | 153 |
The Anglican Communion Today | 154 |
AnglicanRoman Catholic Dialogue | 156 |
The Birth of Methodism | 160 |
Work of the Wesley Brothers | 161 |
Methodist Churches Today | 163 |
MethodistRoman Catholic Dialogue | 164 |
The Arrival of Other Significant Churches | 167 |
Evangelicals | 169 |
EvangelicalRoman Catholic Conversations | 171 |
Pentecostals | 173 |
PentecostalRoman Catholic Dialogue | 174 |
Old Catholics | 175 |
Leaning Toward the Future | 179 |
Strategies for the Future | 180 |
United and Uniting Churches | 181 |
Some Contemporary Problems | 185 |
Agencies Working for Unity | 187 |
Interreligious Dialogue | 190 |
The Aim of Interreligious Dialogue | 191 |
The Content of Interreligious Dialogue | 192 |
Some of the Formal Interreligious Dialogues | 194 |
Endnotes | 199 |
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