Ecumenical Ecclesiology: Unity, Diversity and Otherness in a Fragmented World (Ecclesiological Investigations) PDF
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Ecclesiological Investigations Series Editor Gerard Mannion Volume 5 Ecumenical Ecclesiology Ecclesiological Investigations brings together quality research and inspiring debates in ecclesiology worldwide from a network of international scholars, research centres and projects in the field. Other titles in the series: Receiving ‘The Nature and Mission of the Church’ Christian Community Now Comparative Ecclesiology: Critical Investigations Church and Religious ‘Other’ Ecumenical Ecclesiology UNITY, DIVERSITY AND OTHERNESS IN A FRAGMENTED WORLD Edited by Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen Published by T&T Clark A Continuum imprint The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Copyright # Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, and contributors, 2009 Gesa ElsbethThiessen hasassertedherright undertheCopyright,Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the Author of this work. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by Data Standards Limited, Frome, Somerset Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group ISBN: HB: 978–0–567–00913–5 Series Editor GerardMannion,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven Series Editorial Committee MichaelAttridge,StMichael’sCollege, BradfordHinze,FordhamUniversity,New UniversityofToronto York PaulAvis,ChurchHouse,Westminster, PaulLakeland,FairfieldUniversity, EditorofEcclesiology Connecticut,USA MarkChapman,RiponTheological MaryMcClintockFulkerson,Duke College,Cuddesdon,Oxfordshire University,USA PaulCollins,UniversityofChichester PaulMurray,DurhamUniversity PeterDeMey,KatholiekeUniversiteit GarethPowell,CardiffUniversity Leuven AnthonyReddie,Queen’sFoundation, MichaelFahey,BostonCollege,USA Birmingham,UK FrK.M.George,OldStJoseph’s GemmaSimmonds,HeythropCollege, Seminary,Kottayam,India UniversityofLondon KennethWilson,UniversityofChichester Series Editorial Advisory Board MichaelAttridge,StMichael’sCollege, MarkMason,UniversityofChichester UniversityofToronto MichaelMontgomery,Chicago PaulAvis,ChurchHouse,Westminster TheologicalSeminary MarkChapman,RiponTheological PaulMurray,DurhamUniversity College,Cuddesdon,Oxfordshire TimothyMuldoon,BostonCollege,USA JulieClague,GlasgowUniversity JohnO’Brien,Lahore,Pakistan PaulCollins,UniversityofChichester NeilOrmerod,AustralianCatholic PeterDeMey,KatholiekeUniversiteit University,Sydney Leuven PeterPhan,GeorgetownUniversity MichaelFahey,BostonCollege,USA GarethPowell,CardiffUniversity FrK.M.George,OldStJoseph’s PaulPulikkan,UniversityofCalicut Seminary,Kottayam,India HenkdeRoest,UniversityofLeiden JanetteGray,JesuitTheologicalCollege, AnthonyReddie,Queen’sFoundation, Parkville,Victoria,Australia Birmingham,UK RogerHaight,UnionTheological GemmaSimmonds,HeythropCollege, Seminary,NewYork UniversityofLondon NicholasHealy,SanDiegoUniversity, JuttaSperber,ChurchofPeace,Bayreuth California andtheUniversityofRostock,Germany BradfordHinze,FordhamUniversity,New GesaThiessen,MilltownInstitute,Dublin York OlaTjørhom,Stavanger,Norway PaulLakeland,FairfieldUniversity, StevenShakespeare,LiverpoolHope Connecticut,USA University,UK MohanLarbeer,TamilnaduTheological SteveSummers,UniversityofChichester Seminary(TTS),Madurai,India MichaelWalsh,HeythropCollege, RichardLennan,WesternJesuit UniversityofLondon TheologicalInstitute,BostonMA,USA KennethWilson,UniversityofChichester GerardMannion,KatholiekeUniversiteit HenkWitte,UniversityofTilburg Leuven MaryMcClintockFulkerson,Duke University,USA CONTENTS Acknowledgements viii Contributors ix Preface xii Linda Hogan Introduction 1 Gesa E. Thiessen Part I. Perspectives on Contemporary Ecumenical Ecclesiology 1 DrivingtheHaywain:WhereStandstheChurch‘Catholic’Today?13 Gerard Mannion 2 Seeking Unity: Reflecting on Methods in Contemporary Ecumenical Dialogue 35 Gesa E. Thiessen 3 The Struggle for an Organic, Conciliar and Diverse Church: Models of Church Unity in Earlier Stages of the Ecumenical Dialogue 49 Miriam Haar 4 Church and Covenant: Theological Resources for Divided Denominations 62 Edwin C. van Driel 5 Comprehensive Vision: The Ecumenical Potential of a Lost Ideal 76 Andrew Pierce 6 Integrity, Alternative Aggressions, and Impaired Communion 88 Wendy Dackson Part II. Communion Ecclesiology and Otherness 7 The Church and the ‘Other’: Questions of Ecclesial and Divine Communion 101 Paul M. Collins Contents vii 8 BeingChurch:ACritiqueofZizioulas’CommunionEcclesiology115 Travis E. Ables 9 Retrieving Eucharistic Ecclesiology 128 Radu Bordeianu 10 Communion Ecclesiology and Ecumenical Experience: Resources for Inner-Denominational Otherness 143 Brian P. Flanagan 11 Evangelical Ecclesiology as an Answer to Ethnic Impaired Christian Community? An Inquiry into the Theology of Miroslav Volf 161 Eddy Van der Borght Part III. Ecclesiology in Global Contexts 12 On Being a European Catholic: ThePoliticsofInclusionEncountersanEcclesiologyofExclusion 175 Julie Clague 13 Instruments of Faith and Unity in Canon Law: The Church of Nigeria Constitutional Revision of 2005 190 Evan F. Kuehn 14 Sacral Authority and Pastoral Ministry: A Shamanistic Inculturation of the Protestant Church in Korea 205 Hak Joon Lee 15 Confucianism, Internationalism, Patriotism and Protestantism: The Ecclesiological Matrix of Japanese Christian Activists in Japan and the US Diaspora 223 Madeline Duntley Index 239 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TheideaforthisvolumeemergedfromthetalkspresentedattheUnitofthe Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, 2007, in San Diego, and at a conference on contemporary ecclesiology held at Milltown Institute, Dublin, in 2008. My sincere gratitude to Gerard Mannion for his encouragement to edit this volume and for his unfailing and kind support in the process. Thanks also to Paul M. Collins for his encouragement and to the members of the Steering Group of the Ecclesiological Investigations Network. Thanks are due to Milltown Institute, especially Rector Prof. Finbarr Clancy, SJ, for hostingtheecclesiologyconference.MyspecialthankstoProf.LindaHogan, HeadofSchool,IrishSchoolofEcumenics,TrinityCollege,Dublin,forher preface and to all the contributors to this volume. Their wonderful collaborationmademytaskaverypleasantexperience.ToThomasKraftand T&TClark/Continuummythanksfortheircourteouscooperation.Lastbut not least, Declan Marmion mein herzlicher Dank. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Travis E. Ables is a PhD candidate in Theological Studies and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation is a study on the pneumatological construction of subjectivity in the Western tradition, examining issues of ontology, analogy and apophaticism from Augustine to Rahner. He holds an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Radu Bordeianu is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Born, raised and educated in Romania, he received his ThM from Duke University (2000) and PhD from Marquette University (2006). His research focuses on ecumenical ecclesiol- ogies, especially Orthodox and Catholic. He is most interested in the ecumenical relevance of Dumitru Staniloae’s trinitarian ecclesiology. He has published several articles and has presented various papers on ecumenical and environmental issues. Eddy Van der Borght received his PhD from Leiden University in 2000. Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, hehaspublishedonthetheologyofministry,onecclesiology,andonfaithand ethnicity.HerecentlypublishedTheologyofMinistry:AReformedContribution to an Ecumenical Dialogue (Brill, 2007). His next monograph will focus on church and ethnicity. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Reformed Theology (www.brill.nl/jrt) and of the series Studies in Reformed Theology (www.brill.nl/srt). Julie Clague is a lecturer in Catholic theology at the University of Glasgow. She has written numerous articles and has been co-editor of the journal FeministTheologysince1993andthejournalPoliticalTheologysince2005.She serves on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religion: EcclesiologicalInvestigationsProgrammeunit.Sheisafoundermemberofthe International Association for Catholic Social Thought, and a member of the TheologicalCommissionoftheCatholicBishops’ConferenceofEnglandand Wales agency, Caritas-Social Action. Additionally, she works as a theologian with the Catholic international aid agencies CAFOD and SCIAF.
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