scholarly journals Mother of Hope. Mary of Nazareth in Anglican – Roman-Catholic Dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Blanco Sarto ◽  
Marcin Stanisław Lech
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
International Level ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Catholic Tradition

Our Hope is Christ but His Mother is also ours. A difficult topic in the dialogue with Anglicans is the issue of Mariology. Mary and the various forms of liturgical and non-liturgical Marian devotion were inherited by Anglicans from the Catholic tradition. However, the influence of the Reformation has also had an impact on this topic. Hence, paradoxically, Mariology links and -at the same time- constitutes an element of polemics between Anglicans and Catholics. The Anglican doctrine about Mary of Nazareth mentions the term “complexion oppositorum”. The ecumenical Dialogue has shown us its present situation, as we can read in these pages. The authors, after presenting a historical introduction, made a presentation of all existing ecumenical documents being the fruit of Catholic-Anglican dialogue, in which there was any mention of the Mother of God. Documents at international level as well as documents from national dialogues, in particular from the USA and Canada, have been analysed.

scholarly journals Die Problematik des Begriffes hebraica veritas

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Alfred Loader
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Catholic Tradition

The formal problematic of the concept hebraica veritas Proceeding from the importance of the concept of hebraica veritas in terms of both its original intention and of the opposing positions on Holy Scripture entertained by the Roman Catholic tradition and the emerging Protestant views during the Reformation, a brief discussion of the meaning and early context of the concept is given. The formal problematic of the hebraica veritas as found in the Tanak is addressed vis-à-vis its latinised version in the Greek text tradition. Jerome’s use of the concept is analysed on the basis of his textual justification for it. Pneumatological and salvation-historical dimensions are identified, and the function of the concept as self-identification over against Judaism is discussed, as well as its implications for delimiting the canon. It is concluded that the concept needs to be foregrounded anew in light of its significant impact in the context of accounting for the concepts of Holy Scripture, canon and therefore canon-based endeavours to construe a “biblical theology” of the “whole Bible”.

The Eucharistic Prayer: An Examination of Recent Research

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Richard O'Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
Eucharistic Prayer ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

This paper has many aims. It proposes, first of all, to cover some of the research that has gone into the Eucharistic Prayer, especially its genesis in Roman Catholic circles. It has been a topic of interest for most of this century, but particularly so in the last twenty years. It aims to discuss the spirituality of the Prayer and its relationship to practical piety and to show the relationship between the Liturgy of the Word, the Gospel tradition, and the Eucharistic Prayer as our response to the Word of God. Lastly, this paper aims to uncover something of the theological richness of this Prayer and at the same time to show its roots in the human condition. In covering this research the paper also aims at pinpointing its constituent elements. Liturgically speaking, the Eucharistic Prayer is central: it represents the Christian response to his God at his most central and sacred moment. It is a topic with a long history. It was discussed particularly at the Reformation and in the Reformed circles was one of the casualties of the older tradition. It is a topic, the study of which has produced some conclusions. There has been a rather widespread reform of the Eucharistic Prayer in many churches. This is especially clear in the renewal of the Roman Catholic tradition and in the proposals of the Anglican Series Three.

scholarly journals Moral Disagreement in Anglican – Roman Catholic Relations

Ecclesiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Oliver O’Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Moral Disagreement ◽  
Moral Reason ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
Moral Difference

Abstract The belief that the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches were divided by moral disagreements came to prominence in the early 1980s and affected the direction of ecumenical dialogue. But no moral disagreements go back to the Reformation era, and the perception of moral difference has undergone many changes since that time, especially reflecting differences of social and political setting. A moral agreement or disagreement is difficult to chart with precision. It is not embodied in a formulation of moral doctrine, since moral reason functions on two planes, that of evaluative description and that of deliberation and decision. Disagreement is phenomenologically present as offence, which has its own dynamic of expansion. Addressing offence, a task involving lay, theological and episcopal contributions, is the primary way in which moral agreement has to be sought and defended.

Colloquium of Roman Catholic and Anglican Canonists in Rome 30 April–1 May 1999

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 281-283
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Law School ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eastern Catholic Church

On 30 April and 1 May 1999, the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the Angelicum) hosted a Colloquium on the subject of the Comparative Law of Church Property, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff Law School. It was attended by Anglican and Roman Catholic canonists and a representative of the Eastern Catholic Church. It is believed that this was the first meeting of its type since the Reformation and was a unique opportunity for canon lawyers to engage in ecumenical dialogue. It represented a response by canonists to the welcome given by the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference in 1998 to the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II Ut Unum Sint. Such a meeting would have been unimaginable ten years ago but the substantial common interest which the subject raises coupled with strong friendships forged during the Colloquium has revealed a great potential for events such as these. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who is to chair (jointly with Cardinal Cassidy) a major consultation in Canada in May 2000 reviewing Anglican/Roman Catholic relationships, had expressed his support for the Colloquium and the further initiatives which it might herald. The President of Ireland also sent a personal message of support for the event.

The Wild and Woolly West: Early Irish Christianity and Latin Orthodoxy

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Brendan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Latin West ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Catholic Tradition

In recent historiography a rather unlikely alliance has emerged which is concerned to normalize Early Irish Christianity by emphasizing its links with the religious culture of Western Europe. One wing of the alliance represents a historiographical tradition that originated in the debates of the Reformation with the introduction of a formidable Aunt Sally by the erudite ecclesiastical historian Archbishop Ussher, who purported to discover in the Early Irish Church a form of Christianity in conformity with the Pure Word of God, uncorrupted by papal accretions. Ussher’s A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Scottish and Irish initiated a debate that has reverberated down the centuries around the issue of which of the two major post-Reformation Christian traditions may claim Early Irish Christianity for its heritage. The debate continues to echo, even in these ecumenical times, in a Roman Catholic tradition of writing about the history of the Early Irish Church which emphasizes its links with Roman Orthodoxy—which were, in reality, tenuous and tension-ridden—and glosses over its highly characteristic idiosyncrasies. More recently that tradition has received unlikely and, indeed, unwitting support in consequence of the development of a revisionist trend in Celtic historical studies against a perception of Celtic Ireland that originated in the romantic movement of the nineteenth century and that was taken over holus-bolus by the cultural nationalists. This romantic-nationalist interpretation pivots upon an ethnographic antithesis between the Celt and the other races of Western Europe which endows the former with singular qualities of spirit and of heart and interprets Early Irish Christianity accordingly. By way of antidote modern scholarship has taken to emphasizing external influences and the European context as the key to an understanding of the historical development of Christianity in Ireland, playing up its debt to the Latin West and playing down the claims made on its behalf as the light of Dark Age Europe.

‘Awakening the echoes of the ancient faith’: the National Pilgrimages to Iona

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-154
Author(s):  
Katherine Haldane Grenier
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Theological Understanding

This article examines two pilgrimages to Iona held by the Scottish Roman Catholic Church in 1888 and 1897, the first pilgrimages held in Scotland since the Reformation. It argues that these religious journeys disrupted the calendar of historic commemorations of Victorian Scotland, many of which emphasized the centrality of Presbyterianism to Scottish nationality. By holding pilgrimages to “the mother-church of religion in Scotland” and celebrating mass in the ruins of the Cathedral there, Scottish Catholics challenged the prevailing narrative of Scottish religious history, and asserted their right to control the theological understanding of the island and its role in a “national” religious history. At the same time, Catholics’ veneration of St. Columba, a figure widely admired by Protestant Scots, served as a means of highlighting their own Scottishness. Nonetheless, some Protestant Scots responded to the overt Catholicity of the pilgrimages by questioning the genuineness of “pilgrimages” which so closely resembled tourist excursions, and by scheduling their own, explicitly Protestant, journeys to Iona.

scholarly journals Polish Catholic Church -Ecumenical Contexts

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-169
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Sawa-Czajka ◽  
Mirosław Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Ecumenical Dialogue ◽  
Ecumenical Council ◽  
Catholic Churches

Polish Catholic Church -Ecumenical Contexts Polish Catholic Church operates in its parishes as well as ecumenical cooperation with other Catholic Churches. Moreover, there is also an important ecumenical dialogue conducted with the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholic Church is also active in the Polish Ecumenical Council.

Fides et Ratio: Approaches to a Roman Catholic Political Philosophy

2000 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
James V. Schall
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fides Et Ratio

The relationship between philosophy, revelation, and politics is a basic intellectual theme, either at the forefront or in the background, of all political philosophy. The 1998 publication of John Paul II's encyclicalFides et Ratiooccasioned much reflection on the relation of reason and revelation. Though not directly concerned with political philosophy, this encyclical provides a welcome opportunity to address many theologicalpolitical issues that have arisen in classic and contemporary political philosophy. The argument here states in straightforward terms how philosophy and theology, as understood in the Roman Catholic tradition, can be coherently related to fundamental questions that have legitimately recurred in the works of the political philosophers.

Theologies of Sacraments in the Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Means Of Grace ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Divine Activity

This overview chapter for the second part of the book contrasts the theologies of the sacraments in the Reformation era with those of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Salvation in the Protestant view meant believers are “justified by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.” This differed significantly from the Roman Catholic position in which “‘created’ grace is a substance infused into the sinner to bring spiritual and moral healing.” For the Reformers grace was not a created substance but God’s attitude or disposition of favor toward sinners. This dependency on grace alone involved both preaching “as a means of grace in its own right” and the sacraments as involving “the divine activity that gives efficacy to Baptism and Communion.” While they differed somewhat in their theologies of the sacraments, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Cranmer, and other Reformers were in agreement in that the grace of God in Jesus Christ is presented in the Word preached and the Sacrament administered.

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