Reforming the Reforms: Doctrine in a Time of Ecumenism
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Hall, H. Ashley
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2019
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The article affirms that the contemporary ecumenical agreements (especially between Roman Catholics and Lutherans) are the result of extensive study and exhaustive dialogue at an institutional level. The author’s thesis pushes back against a particular claim that these contemporary ecumenical breakthroughs are the result of a progressive, liberal attitude that is dismissive of the importance of rigorous doctrine. The author argues that, in the cases he presents, the ecumenism of the twentieth and twenty-first century is actually most faithful to the processes and insights of confessional dialogue in the sixteenth century. It is not a devaluation of doctrine but the decoupling of church and state as a context for these dialogues that offers the greatest cause for why more recent dialogues have met with more success than dialogues in the past. |Keywords: Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Ecumenism, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, From Conflict to Communion, colloquy, Regensburg, Formula of Agreement
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Hall, H. A. (2019). Reforming the Reforms: Doctrine in a Time of Ecumenism. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 18, 79-89.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450