Receptive Ecumenism As Transformative Ecclesial Learning Paperback

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