Believing in community
Subtitle: ecumenical reflections on the church
By: edited by Peter de Mey, Pieter de Witte, Gerard Mannion
Contributors: Mey, Peter de, editor; Witte, Pieter de, editor; Mannion, Gerard, 1970- editor
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- CCLXI; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 261.
Publisher: Uitgeverij Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9789042930100
Subjects: Church; Congresses; History of doctrines; Christian union; Communities; Christianity; Interkonfessionelles Gespräch; Ekklesiologie
Notes: Papers presented at the 6th Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, held in Leuven, Belgium, November 7-10, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Individuation and communion : implications for the church's identity and mission  -- Bradford Hinze; title: "Social holiness"--antidote to "solitary religion" : recovering a theology of church as community  -- David M. Chapman; title: The research potential of the notion of logos spermatikos in relation to the church understood as assembly of God (qehal el)  -- Elżbieta Kotkowska; title: The church as potential key to unlocking the problem of providence, predestination, and human free choice  -- Richard W. Miller; title: The community of non-community : philosophical anthropology as a challenge to theology  -- Tom Jacobs; title: A community of love? On the invisibility of love and the church  -- Kristien Justaert; title: Autonomy, community, and political liberalism : an enquiry into ecclesial challenges in the twenty-first century  -- John K. Burke; title: The community in dialogue  -- Grazyna Piskorz; title: The critical use of socio-political categories in ecclesiology  -- Luca Badini Confalonieri; title: On "liquid" and "solid" churches : believing and belonging in a postmodern context  -- Randy J.C. Odchigue; title: The sinfulness and visibility of the church : a christological exploration  -- William T. Cavanaugh; title: Charisms and ministries in the church : a relationship of tension or complementarity?  -- Oonagh O'Brien; title: Lay ministers of the future : lessons in mutual trust and collaboration from Latin America  -- Thomas M. Kelly; title: Theologians and the magisterium : proposal for a complementarity of charisms through dialogue  -- Todd A. Salzman, Michael G. Lawler; title: Images of the diakonos : Protestant and Byzantine influences on the Catholic Church  -- Joseph H.J. Leach; title: Sensus fidelium--authority : protecting and promoting the ecclesiology of Vatican II with the assistance of institutions?  -- Myriam Wijlens; title: Redeeming Catholicity for a globalising age : the sacramentality of the church  -- Paul D. Murray; title: An eschatological ecclesiology--open to the future and possibility : crucial prerequisite for ecumenical rapprochement  -- Bernard P. Prusak; title: A church in dialogue with peoples of other faiths : a journey to the kingdom in the spirit  -- Ruben C. Mendoza; title: Is the church a sacrament? A Protestant approach  -- André Birmelé; title: Trinitarian ecclesiology and the ecumenical imperatives of Reformed confessional identity  -- Arie J. Griffioen; title: Jürgen Moltmann's social trinitarian ecclesiology : finessing the differential freedom of persons  -- Thomas R. Thompson; title: After our likeness? Reflections on Miroslav Volf's trinitarian ecclesiology  -- Markus Höfner; title: "The church's deepest nature" : Protestant ethicists and Benedict XVI on charity and ecclesiology  -- Elizabeth Agnew Cochran; title: An Orthodox perspective on the trinitarian foundation of the church  -- Nicu Dumitraṣcu; title: The reconciling community : Dostoevsky, pardon and ontology  -- David Pratt; title: Does sobornost match catholicity? A. Khomyakov on believing in community  -- Victor Yudin; title: The authority to serve in a community of love : an orthodox perspective on authority in the church  -- Ioan Sauca; title: Dynamics of the mutual bilateral dialogues  of the Lutheran, Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches : discourse founded on a Koinonia ecclesiology  -- Lorelei F. Fuchs; title: Ecumenical consensus : contemporary challenges and possible solutions  -- Minna Hietamäki; title: Ecumenism as organic wholeness  -- Natalie Kertes Weaver; title: Acknowledging ecumenical experiences as ecclesial events  -- Donald W. Norwood; title: The sacramental foundations of ecclesial identity : barrier or passageway to ecumenical unity?  -- Susan K. Wood; title: The episcopal ministry in the church--indispensable for the unity of the churches to come  -- Josef Aussermair; title: Unity, diversity, and apostolicity : are there any hopes for rapprochement between older and younger churches?  -- Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen; title: The whole turn : part of Christ or participation in the life of Christ?  -- Joseph F. Duggan; title: The church of the Triune God : the Anglican-Orthodox Cyprus Agreed Statement of 2006  -- Michael A. Fahey; title: The depths of ecclesial unity between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches : evidences from the "Dialogue of Love"  -- B.J. Lawrence Cross; title: Affirming sobornicity : the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic church and modern ecumenism  -- Jaroslav Z. Skira; title: The marks of the church and full communion : the critical retrieval of the Via Notarum in The nature and mission of the church (2005)  -- Katherine Shirk Lucas; title: Interchurch families--a test case for the "Domestic Church"  -- Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi; title: The future of ecumenism -- Jos E. Vercruysse.