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III. Ecumenism, Liturgy, and Sacraments in the Twenty-Five Years since Ut Unum Sint Was Written
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2020
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“The entire ecumenical liturgical conversation and dialogue is over—finished, dead, done.”
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29 John L. Allen, Jr., “Liturgist Says Ecumenical Dialogue Is ‘Dead,’” National Catholic Reporter, May 24, 2002, http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2002b/052402/052402i.htm.
30 John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint (May 25, 1995), http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint.html, §21.
31 For an interpretation of Ut Unum Sint by a distinguished Methodist theologian, see Geoffrey Wainwright, “Ut Unum Sint in Light of ‘Faith and Order’—or ‘Faith and Order’ in Light of Ut Unum Sint?” in Church Unity and the Papal Office: An Ecumenical Dialogue on John Paul II's Encyclical Ut Unum Sint (That All May Be One), eds. Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2001), 76–97, esp. 89.
32 Pecklers, Keith, “What Roman Catholics Have to Learn from Anglicans,” in Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism, ed. Murray, Paul (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 107–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The title of this book itself represents an improvement on the notion of an ecumenism of return. See further, Pizzey, Antonia, Receptive Ecumenism and the Renewal of the Ecumenical Movement (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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35 In particular, see the Roman Catholic response in The Churches Respond to BEM VI, ed. Max Thurian (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1988), 1–40; also in http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/dialoghi/sezione-occidentale/dialoghi-multilaterali/dialogo/commissione-fede-e-costituzione/risposta-cattolica-a-bem/en.html.
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39 Virpi Mäkinen, Veikko Karimies, Simo Peura, et al., “The Finnish Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue Commission for Finland: Communion in Growth: Declaration on the Church, Eucharist, and Ministry” (Helsinki: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland, 2017), https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/communion-in-growth-declaration-on-the-church-eucharist-and-minis.
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42 Guidelines for admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East can be found at http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/it/dialoghi/sezione-orientale/chiesa-assira-dell-oriente/altri-documenti/2001---orientamenti-per-lammissione-alleucaristia-fra-la-chiesa-/testo-in-inglese.html.
43 Needless to say, the document caused a stir and a good deal of debate. See Russo, Nicholas, “The Validity of the Anaphora of Addai and Mari: Critique of the Critiques,” in Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West, ed. Johnson, Maxwell (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2011), 20–61Google Scholar.
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45 As has been the case, for example, with the Boston Theological Institute (founded 1968) and the Graduate Theological Union (founded in Berkeley, CA, in 1962).
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