Hope in the Ecumenical Future

Mark D. Chapman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319633718
• eBook ISBN: 9783319633725
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Christliche Konfessionen

This book offers fresh insights into the contemporary state of Ecumenism. Following the election of Pope Francis, there has been a significant thaw in ecumenical relations, and there are grounds for thinking that this will continue into the future. The twelve chapters, written both by experienced ecumenical theologians as well as younger scholars, that have been gathered together in this collection, offer one of the first detailed assessments of the impact of Francis' papacy on ecumenical dialogue. Drawing on ecumenical methodology, as well as many practical examples and illustrations, the authors discuss the developments in culture and missiology as these affect the practice of ecumenism, particularly in response to theologies of hope as well as inter-religious dialogue and pluralism. What emerges is a clear sense of hope for the future in a rapidly changing world and even a sense of optimism that real ecumenical progress might be made. 

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editor and Contributors
• Part I Introduction
• Introduction: Hope in the Ecumenical Future
• Part II Hope and Unity
• The Unity (and Disunity) of Our Hope
• The Holy Spirit and Ecumenism: A Shift from Hope to Charity
• Together Towards Life: Christian Hope and its Witness: Some Theological Aspects and Missiological Implications
• The Reign of God and the Church: Giorgio Agamben’s Messianic Critique of the Church
• Part III Hope, Francis and the Ecumenical Future
• The Ecumenism of Mission: Impulses from the Aparecida Document (CELAM V) and Evangelii Gaudium
• Pope Francis and Hope in the Ecumenical Future: A Papacy of Encounter
• Hope Versus Optimism: The Hidden Rocks in Anglican Roman Catholic Dialogue
• Part IV Hope, Practice and Pluralism
• Part IV Hope, Practice and Pluralism
• The Marks of the Church: A Paradigm for the Twenty-First-Century Church
• Hope in Dark Times: Australian Churches Covenanting Together 1994–2014
• From the Inner Being of God to Inter-Faith Dialogue
• A Pluralist Before Her Time: Simone Weil on the World Religions
• Index