Catholicity and Conciliarity as Challenges for Christian Churches Today
Teaching ecumenism in the context of global Christianity raises the question of how to approach the themes of “catholicity” and “conciliarity.” This article addresses some of the challenges and possible paths in relation to this topic. At a time when universalism is often (and rightly) denounced, ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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The ecumenical review
Year: 2022, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-44 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church KDF Orthodox Church KDJ Ecumenism NBN Ecclesiology |
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Catholicity
B Ecumenism B Universality B Global Christianity B conciliarity |
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| Summary: | Teaching ecumenism in the context of global Christianity raises the question of how to approach the themes of “catholicity” and “conciliarity.” This article addresses some of the challenges and possible paths in relation to this topic. At a time when universalism is often (and rightly) denounced, can or should there be room for a sense of the church’s universality or catholicity? Or is universality always an instrument in the service of hegemonic (mostly Western) quests for domination? The paper seeks to show how universality entails a mutual, ongoing dialogue in which all parties involved may set the agenda and contribute. This connects to conciliarity or synodality, a much-discussed theme in Roman Catholicism, in the Orthodox world, and among Protestant churches worldwide. The article presents some of the challenges the churches have been and are facing as they seek to become more authentically synodal churches. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12672 |