Archive for tag: receptive ecumenism

Archive pour tag : receptive ecumenism

While a new perspective in the goal of Christian unity that embraces diversity has emerged in recent years, more work is needed to include the burgeoning non-denominational Churches.

Sceptics often ask whether a century of ecumenical activity has brought Christians any closer to the goal of full visible unity. But in recent years the traditional goal of ecumenism has been reframed. What is now hoped for might be better described as “full communion in continuing real diversity”.

This new horizon has come about through multiple experiences of what the theologians involved in ecumenical work call “transformative ecclesial learning”. This is the modus operandi of “receptive ecumenism” – another technical term for an initiative conceived more than 20 years ago by Paul D. Murray of the University of Durham and developed with colleagues around the world. Its starting point for each tradition, institution and person is to ask, “What can we learn, or receive, with integrity from our various others in order to facilitate our own growth together into deepened communion?” Focused initially on establishing a new approach for the Roman Catholic Church in its ecumenical relationships, receptive ecumenism has evolved in a host of Christian denominations as well as in various countries and cultures around the world.
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Posted: Jan. 17, 2025 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14501
Categories: TabletIn this article: receptive ecumenism
Transmis : 17 janv. 2025 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=14501
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The Mennonite-Anglican Dialogue in Canada was created in 2017 with a mandate to build up understanding and to encourage greater partnership between these two distinct Christian communities. A first term of the dialogue was held between 2018 and 2022 under the sponsorship of Mennonite Church Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. In 2023, the sponsoring bodies agreed to a second phase of the dialogue to commence in 2024.

The first meeting of this second iteration of Mennonite-Anglican Dialogue was held from May 31 to June 2 in Treaty 1 Territory in the city of Winnipeg. It was hosted by Mennonite Church Canada at their offices and on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University.
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Posted: Aug. 14, 2024 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14350
Categories: Communiqué, NewsIn this article: Anglican Church of Canada, dialogue, Mennonite Church Canada, receptive ecumenism
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Catégorie : Communiqué, NewsDans cet article : Anglican Church of Canada, dialogue, Mennonite Church Canada, receptive ecumenism

In recent years, the movement towards Christian unity, which had quickened after the Second Vatican Council, seemed to have become mired in a quagmire of insurmountable difficulties. The synodal process launched by Pope Francis has changed all that. The extraordinary synodal journey is not one that the Catholic Church is embarking on alone. The recently published Instrumentum Laboris – working document – for the forthcoming October assembly in Rome devotes a whole section to Christian unity and how the Catholic Church can learn from other traditions. This was the theme of a recent meeting that brought Church leaders and theologians from the Catholic Church and six other Christian denominations to Durham, in the northeast of England.
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Posted: July 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13732
Categories: TabletIn this article: receptive ecumenism, synodality
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As any long-standing married couple will tell you, living relationships are changing relationships. So after some 55 years of bilateral dialogue, it’s not surprising to see that the Anglican–Roman Catholic international dialogue (ARCIC) has adopted a new approach. Where the first two phases of the dialogue, ARCIC I and II, sought to identify points of agreement, ARCIC III has focused on mutual support and possibilities for learning from one another through use of a methodology called receptive ecumenism. Its first agreed statement, Walking Together on the Way: Learning to be the Church – Local, Regional, Universal (WTW), was published in 2017.
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Posted: Aug. 31, 2021 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13603
Categories: One Body, OpinionIn this article: Anglican, Catholic, dialogue, receptive ecumenism
Transmis : 31 aoüt 2021 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=13603
Catégorie : One Body, OpinionDans cet article : Anglican, Catholic, dialogue, receptive ecumenism