Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning

• Draws on the expertise of an internationally regarded team of authors, representing a diversity of denominational perspectives and disciplinary expertise to give comprehensive and balanced coverage of ideas
• Provides readers with fresh and distinctive perspectives on the ecumenical endeavour in general and contemporary Roman Catholic ecclesiology in particular
• Helpfully structured into five sections with explanatory preface for ease of use
• Includes a foreword and original essay by His Eminence Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Readership: Scholars and students of Ecumenism and contemporary Roman Catholicism; Clergy and lay readers particularly from within the Roman Catholic tradition but also within other Christian denominations

Edited by Paul Murray, Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University

Review(s) from previous edition

"All the churches have have a cause to be grateful for the imaginative way Dr Murray and his colleagues are promoting both ecumenism and the study of Catholic theology. - Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper

"...it is heartening to see this sophisticated venture to revitalise ecumenical exchange explicity adopting interfaith strategies, guided by an intellectual humility inclining each to learn from the other. This tactic allows us to see how "ecumenism" can hardly be limited to inter-Christian exchange...This fivefold ordering offers clear direction in matters ecumenical to the superb participants. A properly eschatological intent is fleshed out in one essay after another by invoking the "pilgrim church" archetype: learning from others on the way to a goal all share, but which none can confidently articulate, as it eludes human construction." - David Burrell, The Tablet

"there are many gems. The book, and the movement it articulates, is like the tiny tips of spring buds on a raw day before spring has begun." - Christopher Hill, Church Times

Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
I: Vision and Principles
Prologue: Acts 2:1-11
1: Paul D. Murray: Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Learning: Establishing 5 the Agenda
2: Margaret O'Gara: Receiving Gifts in Ecumenical Dialogue
3: Ladislas Örsy, S.J.: Authentic Learning and Receiving: A Search for Criteria
4: Philip Sheldrake: Becoming Catholic Persons and Learning to Be a Catholic People
5: Nicholas Lash: The Church: A School of Wisdom?
6: Walter Kasper: Credo Unam Sanctam Ecclesiam - The Relationship Between the Catholic and the Protestant Principles in Fundamental Ecclesiology
7: Riccardo Larini: Texts and Contexts: Hermeneutical Reflections on Receptive Ecumenism
II: Receptive Ecumenical Learning through Catholic Dialogue
Philip Endean, S. J.: Prologue - Phillipians 1 3-7a
8: Keith F. Pecklers, S.J.: What Roman Catholics Have to Learn from Anglicans
9: Michael E. Putney: Receptive Catholic Learning through Methodist-Catholic Dialogue
10: David Chapman: A Methodist Perspective on Catholic Learning
11: William G. Rusch: The International Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue: An Example of Ecclesial Learning and Ecumenical Reception
12: Paul McPartlan: Catholic Learning and Orthodoxy: The Promise and Challenge of Eucharistic Ecclesiology
III: Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Church Order
Prologue - Ephesians 4: 7, 11-16
13: James F. Puglisi, S.A.: Catholic Learning Concerning Apostolicity and Ecclesiality
14: Denis Edwards: The Holy Spirit as the Gift: Pneumatology, Receptivity and Catholic Re-reception of the Petrine Ministry In the Theology of Walter Kasper
15: Joseph Famerée: What Might Catholicism Learn from Orthodoxy in Relation to Collegiality
16: Paul Lakeland: Potential Catholic Learning Around Lay Participation in Decision Making
17: Patrick Connolly: Receptive Ecumenical Learning and Episcopal Accountability within Contemporary Catholicism: Canonical Considerations
IV:The Pragmatics of Receptive Ecumenical Learning
Philip Endean, S.J.: Prologue - John 11: 43b-53
18: Mary Tanner, OBE: From Vatican II to Mississauga: Lessons in Receptive Ecumenical Learning from the Anglican-Roman Catholic Bilateral Dialogue Process
19: Donald Bolen: Receptive Ecumenism and Recent Initiatives in the Catholic Church's Dialogues with the Anglican Communion and the World Methodist Council
20: Geraldine Smyth, O.P.: Jerusalem, Athens, and Zurich: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Factors Inhibiting Receptive Ecumenism
21: Brendan Tuohy and Eamonn Conway: Managing Change in the Irish Civil Service and the Implications for Transformative Ecclesial Learning
22: Peter McGrail: The Fortress Church under Reconstruction? Sociological Factors Inhibiting Receptive Catholic Learning in the Church in England and Wales
23: James Sweeney: Ecumenism and the 'Tribe': A Sociological Perspective on Receptive Ecumenism
24: Thomas Reese, S.J.: Organisational Factors Inhibiting Receptive Catholic Learning
V: Retrospect and Prospect
Philip Endean, S.J.: Prologue - Revelation 1:9-18
25: Andrew Louth: Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Learning: An Orthodox Perspective
26: Nicholas Sagovsky: The Place of Anglicanism in Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Learning
27: Hervé Legrand, O.P.: Receptive Ecumenism and the Future of Ecumenical Dialogues: Privileging Differentiated Consensus and Drawing Its Institutional Consequences
28: Gabriel Flynn: Receptive Ecumenism and Catholic Learning: Reflections in Dialogue with Yves Congar and B. C. Butler
29: Gerard Mannion: Receptive Ecumenism and the Hermeneutics of Catholic Learning: The Promise of Comparative Ecclesiology
30: Daniel W. Hardy: Receptive Ecumenism: Learning by Engagement
31: Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C.: Learning the Ways of Receptive Ecumenism: Formational and Catechetical Considerations
32: Peter Philips: Receiving the Experience of Eucharistic Celebration
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index