Titre du document / Document title

Apprendre la catholicité : explorations de l'oecuménisme réceptif = «Good Practice and Poor Experience in Receptive Ecumenical Learning »

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

TANNER Mary ;

Résumé / Abstract

. How do Christian traditions most effectively and genuinely learn, or receive, from one another with integrity? In 1968, a Preliminary Commission set out a realistic and imaginative programme for the progression of Anglican - Roman Catholic relations, a plan for what was called "phased rapprochement", according to which Anglicans and Roman Catholics would move together by taking bold steps and entering new stages of an officially sanctioned relationship on the basis of the degree of explicit agreement in faith reached in theological dialogue. The Anglican - Roman Catholic theological dialogue, ARCIC, made extraordinary progress in its work on Eucharist, ministry, and authority, and its work was followed with great attention in both communions. Its Final Report (1982) asked what «concrete steps» should be taken on the basis of the agreements reached to draw the two communions closer together. But rather than deal with that challenge, the response process became more an academic exercise than a move into receptive ecumenism. The work of the second ARCIC Commission went largely unrecognised in both Communions. Nevertheless ARCIC II gave much greater emphasis to the notion of reception, and "re-reception" became a central part of the agreed statements themselves. An unprecedented initiative in "receptive ecumenism" was taken in May 2000, when Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 13 countries met at Mississauga, Canada, and issued an action plan calling for the signing of a Joint Declaration of Agreement which would set out the shared goal of visible unity, would bank the theological agreements and convergences discovered through the work of ARCIC and, on the basis of this, express definite commitments to live a closer life and shared mission. The IARCCUM commission was created to fulfil that goal. Although the introduction of women's ordination and the sexuality debates in the Anglican Communion have introduced some interference into the process, it is to be hoped that Anglicans and Roman Catholics will come closer to genuine "receptive ecumenism" when they rediscover the necessary relation between theological agreement, the call to reform and transformation addressed to both sides, and a practical expression of the degree of communion already attained.

Revue / Journal Title

Irenikon   ISSN 0021-0978 

Source / Source

Congrès
L'Apprentissage catholique : des explorations sur l'œcuménisme réceptif. Colloque, Ushaw , ROYAUME-UNI (12/01/2006)
2008, vol. 81, n^o2-3, pp. 179-197 [19 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Français

Editeur / Publisher

Monastère de Chevetogne, Chevetogne, BELGIQUE  (1926) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Moravian brethern ; Protestant churches ; Catholic apostolic church ; Church of England ; Oecumenism ; Catholicity ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Frères moraves ; Eglises protestantes ; Eglise catholique apostolique ; Eglise anglicane ; Oecuménisme ; Catholicité ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 24696, 35400018689852.0010