Practices of dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church
Subtitle: aims and obstacles, lessons and laments
By: Bradford E. Hinze.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780826417213
Subjects: Dialogue -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The matrix of dialogue in the church; title: The life of the parish and the pastoral council; title: Discerning the mission of the local church; title: The bishop and the docesan synod; title: An overwhelming response to a U.S. bishops' invitation; title: The call to action; title: A new way of teaching with authority; title: The pastoral letters of the U.S. Bishops' Conference; title: Placating polarizations or making them productive?; title: The Catholic Common Ground Initiative; title: The church women want; title: What women religious learned in chapters; title: Collegiality and constraint; title: The synod of bishops; title: Differentiated consensus, imperfect communion; title: Ecumenical dialogues; title: Rethinking the oldest divisions in the interests of larger truths and lasting peace; title: Interreligious dialogue; title: Lessons and laments and the unfinished agenda of a dialogical church.