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Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed

Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed

          
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Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' Since the publication of Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism (OUP, 2008), this fresh ecumenical strategy has been adopted, critiqued, and developed in different Christian traditions, and in local, national, and international settings, including the most recent bilateral dialogue of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III). The thirty-eight chapters in this new volume, by academics, church leaders, and ecumenical practitioners who have adopted and adapted Receptive Ecumenism in various ecclesial and cultural contexts, show how Receptive Ecumenism has grown and matured. Part I demonstrates how Receptive Ecumenism itself is capable of being received with integrity into very different ecclesiologies and ecclesial traditions. In Part II, this approach to transformative ecumenical learning is applied to some recurrent ecclesial problems, such as the understanding and practice of ministry, revealing new insights and practical opportunities. Part III examines the potential and challenges for Receptive Ecumenism in different international settings. Part IV draws on Scripture, hermeneutics, and pneumatology to offer critical reflection on how Receptive Ecumenism itself implements transformative ecclesial learning.Addressing the seventieth anniversary of the World Council of Churches, Archbishop Justin Welby said that 'One of the most important of recent ecumenical developments has been the concept of

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Part I. Receiving Receptive Ecumenism across the Traditions 1: Rowan Williams: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Anglicanism 2: Paul S. Fiddes: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity according to Baptist Thinking about the Church 3: Tamara Grdzelidze: Receptive Ecclesial Learning through Ecumenical Engagement: An Orthodox Perspective 4: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: Receptive Ecumenism and the Dynamics of Development within Pentecostalism 5: Donald Bolen: Foundations and Openings for Ecclesial Learning: A Catholic Perspective 6: David M. Chapman: The Call to Holiness: Catholics and Methodists in Dialogue 7: Sarah Rowland Jones: To Receive From Each Other, First Receive Each Other: Receptive Ecumenism and the Global Christian Forum 8: Risto Saarinen and Minna Hietamäki: Finnish Luther Studies, Lutheran Dialogues, and Ecclesial Learning 9: Donald W. Norwood: Reformed Catholicity: Catholic Calvin, Barth, Brown & Co. Part II. Receiving in Relation to Our Difficulties 10: Anthony T. Currer: Receptive Ecumenism and ARCIC III 11: Paul Lakeland: What Does Rome Have to Learn from Geneva? Whole-Body Ecclesiology and the Inductive Turn 12: Gabrielle Thomas: 'Mutual Flourishing' in the Church of England: Receiving a Gift from the Orthodox Theological Tradition 13: Susan A. Ross: Women's Ministry: A Hidden Opening for Ecumenical Discussion 14: Richard Lennan: Developing Catholic Understanding and Practice of Ordained Ministry through Receptive Learning 15: Peter Phillips: Re-receiving Catholic Eucharistic Theology from the Hymns of John and Charles Wesley 16: Diane Ryan: Not Problems but Pioneers: Interchurch Families and Receptive Ecumenism 17: Linda C. Nicholls: Learning to Love Differently Well: Human Sexuality, the Churches, and Receptive Ecumenism Part III. Receptive Ecclesial Learning in International Perspective 18: Marcus Pound: Receptive Ecumenism and the Local Church 19: Sandra L. Barnes: Ecumenical Involvement between US Black and White Churches Revisited: Old Obstacles and New Opportunities 20: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator SJ: Receptive Ecumenism in African Perspective: Beyond the Scandal of a Divided Foreign Religion 21: Peter J. Casarella: Receptive Ecumenism in a Latin American Context: Catholic and Pentecostalist Learning in Relation to Mariology 22: Néstor Medina: Unlikely Siblings? Pentecostal Ethico-theological Insights from Catholic Teaching on Mary 23: Geraldine Hawkes: Australian Practices of Receptive Ecumenism 24: Francis X. Clooney SJ: Comparative Theology's Interesting Asymmetries with Receptive Ecumenism 25: John O'Brien: Two-eyed Vision: A Sufi Perspective on the Both/And Structure of Receptive Ecumenism Part IV. Learning to be Receptive Ecclesial Learners Discerning the Dynamics of Ecclesial Learning 26: Gregory A. Ryan: A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism's Hermeneutical Virtue 27: Bradford E. Hinze: What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches through the Laments of the Faithful? 28: Ormond Rush: Revelation, Sensus Fidelium, and Receptive Ecumenism 29: Jeff Astley: What Prevents Christian Churches from Learning? 30: Clare Watkins: Living Church: Practical Theology as a Locus for Ecumenical Learning Breaking the Bread of the Word Together 31: Mike Higton: Receiving Scripture Again From One Another 32: Vicky Balabanski and Michael Trainor: Learning to be Church: Virtues and Practices Leading towards Koinonia in Colossians and Acts 33: John M.G. Barclay: Interdependence, Need, and Reciprocal Asymmetry in the Body of Christ: A Reading of 1 Corinthians 12 34: David F. Ford: Mature Ecumenism's Daring Future: Learning from the Gospel of John for the Twenty-First Century Receiving the Spirit of Ecclesial Reform 35: Catherine E. Clifford: Towards a Spirituality of Receptive Ecumenical Learning 36: Callan Slipper: A Discipline for Living According to the Spirit: Chiara Lubich and Receptive Ecumenism 37: Antonia Pizzey: Receptive Ecumenism and the Virtues 38: Paul D. Murray: Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198985181
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 31 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Spine Width: 235 mm
  • Weight: 868 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198985185
  • Publisher Date: 17 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed
  • Width: 156 mm


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