The Reception of arcicI and II in Europe and Discerning the Strategy and Agenda for arciciii

Abstract

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In Search of a Way

“…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.…”

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies

“…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.…”

“…The third major phase of work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III) provides an interesting example here, with its mandated focus on decisionmaking and ethical discernment at local and universal levels, and in light of its formal adoption at its May 2011 inaugural meeting at the Monastery of Bose of receptive ecumenism as a key strand in its proposed methodology (Murray 2011(Murray , 2015. This has shaped the first agreed statement to emerge from ARCIC III, Walking Together on the Way, to be published in 2018.…”