Receptive Ecumenism and Ecclesial Learning

Murray, Paul D.

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“…Accordingly, the members of ARCIC continue to develop fresh strategies for seeking to serve this need (Murray 2011, 205-206). It is in direct relation to this context and its challenges, and in creative continuity with the work of ARCIC, that the strategy which has come to be referred to as 'receptive ecumenism' has been devised and tested as charting a way for contemporary ecumenism (Murray 2008a(Murray , 2008b(Murray , 2015Murray and Murray 2012). It proceeds by bringing to the fore the dispositions of self-critical hospitality, humble learning, and ongoing conversion that have always been quietly essential to good ecumenical work and by turning them into the explicit required strategy and core task of contemporary ecumenism.…”

Section: Achievements and Limits Of Traditional Bilateral Strategiesmentioning

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In Search of a Way

Murray¹

2017

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

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This chapter explores ecumenical methodology. It is organized in six sections. The first reflects on ecumenism as a ‘method’, a ‘way’, variously understood, about which there is a second-order methodological discourse concerning how it is best pursued. The second reflects on the variant approaches of ‘Life and Work’ ecumenism and ‘Faith and Order’ ecumenism. The third assesses some of the strategies which have hitherto been important in bilateral dialogue and identifies the need now for an ecumenical gear-change. The fourth section pursues this idea by focusing on a strategy which has come to be referred to as ‘receptive ecumenism’. Following an exploration of the methodological implications of this strategy in relation to bilateral dialogues in the fifth section, the sixth section finally explores its implications at the level of the local church.

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“…Accordingly, the members of ARCIC continue to develop fresh strategies for seeking to serve this need (Murray 2011, 205-206). It is in direct relation to this context and its challenges, and in creative continuity with the work of ARCIC, that the strategy which has come to be referred to as 'receptive ecumenism' has been devised and tested as charting a way for contemporary ecumenism (Murray 2008a(Murray , 2008b(Murray , 2015Murray and Murray 2012). It proceeds by bringing to the fore the dispositions of self-critical hospitality, humble learning, and ongoing conversion that have always been quietly essential to good ecumenical work and by turning them into the explicit required strategy and core task of contemporary ecumenism.…”

Section: Achievements and Limits Of Traditional Bilateral Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

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2017

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“…53 He attests that RE emphasizes the 'need' for churches 'to walk the way of conversion towards more visible structural and sacramental unity'. 54 However, it is still to be determined whether Murray and Couturier use the term 'conversion' in the same manner. While RE has a pneumatological focus, 55 it may need to be expressed more explicitly, a point that will be considered in more detail later.…”

Section: Links Between Receptive Ecumenism and Spiritual Ecumenism: Imentioning

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“…Moreover, RE is designed to complement, rather than replace, existing ecumenical methodologies. 101 That being said, how does RE fit with SE?…”

Section: Understanding Receptive Ecumenism In Relation To Spiritual Ementioning

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On the maturation of Receptive Ecumenism: The connection between Receptive Ecumenism and Spiritual Ecumenism

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Ormerod³

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Pacifica

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While Receptive Ecumenism has great potential, certain points of its methodology require further elucidation. Searching for clarity over these aspects calls for a particular focus on the connection between Receptive Ecumenism and Spiritual Ecumenism. There are significant links between Receptive and Spiritual Ecumenism, such as an emphasis on interior conversion. However, there are also tensions between them, most notably surrounding the concept of the ecumenical gift exchange. This article proposes that Receptive Ecumenism cannot be properly understood without reference to Spiritual Ecumenism, and that, in fact, Spiritual Ecumenism enriches, and may provide the necessary criteria for, Receptive Ecumenism.

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