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16 - Ecumenism

from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Susan K. Wood
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

The Second Vatican Council officially launched the Catholic Church into the ecumenical movement. A reexamination of these texts more than fifty years later suggests areas of critique as well as further possible developments that were underexplored at the time, even though the seeds for these developments were planted at the council.

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BaptismEcumenismMinistryEcclesial CommunitiesEastern Churches
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 282 - 302
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Becker, Werner. “Decree on Ecumenism: History of the Decree.” In Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, Vol. 2, edited by Vorgrimler, Herbert, 1–164. New York: Herder and Herder, 1968.Google Scholar
Bevans, Stephen B. SVD, and Gros, Jeffrey FSC. Evangelization and Religious Freedom: Ad Gentes, Dignitatis Humanae. New York: Paulist Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Cassidy, Edward Idris. Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate. New York: Paulist Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Congar, Yves M.-J. OP. Chrétiens désunis: principes d’un “oecuméisme” catholique. Unam Sanctam 1. Paris: Cerf, 1937.Google Scholar
Gaillardetz, Richard R. The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum. New York: Paulist Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Kasper, Walter. Harvesting the Fruits: Basic Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue. New York: Continuum, 2009.Google Scholar
Kasper, Walter. That They May All Be One: The Call to Unity Today. London: Burns & Oates, 2004.Google Scholar
Radano, John, ed. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism: Exploring the Achievements of International Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.Google Scholar
Radano, John A. Lutheran and Catholic Reconciliation on Justification. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009.Google Scholar
Wicks, Jared, SJ. Investigating Vatican II: Its Theologians, Ecumenical Turn, and Biblical Commitment. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Wood, Susan K. SCL. One Baptism: Ecumenical Dimensions of the Doctrine of Baptism. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Wood, Susan K. SCL, and Wengert, Timothy J.. A Shared Spiritual Journey: Lutherans and Catholic Traveling toward Unity. New York: Paulist Press, 2016.Google Scholar

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