Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning

Paul D. Murray is Professor of Systematic Theology at Durham University where he was the founding Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies (2007-2023). He has served on the editorial boards of Concilium International and Theological Studies, is a former President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, a former member of the third phase of work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III), on which he continues as consultor, and an ecumenical canon of Durham Cathedral. In addition to three books, he has contributed numerous essays to leading journals and scholarly collections. His holds an M.Litt (Durham) and a PhD (Cambridge).Gregory A. Ryan (PhD, Durham) researches, teaches, and publishes on Receptive Ecumenism, contemporary Catholic ecclesiology, and hermeneutics. He is based at the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University, developing formation programmes for lay and ordained ministry in the North of England.Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley S.J. Professor Emiritus of Catholic Studies and was founding Director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, where he worked since 1981, with roles including chairperson of the Religious Studies Department and director of the Honors Program. In addition to his PhD from Vanderbilt University, he holds degrees in philosophy, divinity, and English. He is the author of ten books, and editor of two more, in the fields of Catholic ecclesiology, cultural theory, and religion and literature. In 2020 he received the Hellwig Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic intellectual life.

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• List of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsPart I. Receiving Receptive Ecumenism across the Traditions1: Rowan Williams: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Anglicanism2: Paul S. Fiddes: Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity according to Baptist Thinking about the Church3: Tamara Grdzelidze: Receptive Ecclesial Learning through Ecumenical Engagement: An Orthodox Perspective4: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: Receptive Ecumenism and the Dynamics of Development within Pentecostalism5: Donald Bolen: Foundations and Openings for Ecclesial Learning: A Catholic Perspective6: David M. Chapman: The Call to Holiness: Catholics and Methodists in Dialogue7: Sarah Rowland Jones: To Receive From Each Other, First Receive Each Other: Receptive Ecumenism and the Global Christian Forum8: Risto Saarinen and Minna Hietamäki: Finnish Luther Studies, Lutheran Dialogues, and Ecclesial Learning9: Donald W. Norwood: Reformed Catholicity: Catholic Calvin, Barth, Brown & Co.Part II. Receiving in Relation to Our Difficulties10: Anthony T. Currer: Receptive Ecumenism and ARCIC III11: Paul Lakeland: What Does Rome Have to Learn from Geneva? Whole-Body Ecclesiology and the Inductive Turn12: Gabrielle Thomas: 'Mutual Flourishing' in the Church of England: Receiving a Gift from the Orthodox Theological Tradition13: Susan A. Ross: Women's Ministry: A Hidden Opening for Ecumenical Discussion14: Richard Lennan: Developing Catholic Understanding and Practice of Ordained Ministry through Receptive Learning15: Peter Phillips: Re-receiving Catholic Eucharistic Theology from the Hymns of John and Charles Wesley16: Diane Ryan: Not Problems but Pioneers: Interchurch Families and Receptive Ecumenism17: Linda C. Nicholls: Learning to Love Differently Well: Human Sexuality, the Churches, and Receptive EcumenismPart III. Receptive Ecclesial Learning in International Perspective18: Marcus Pound: Receptive Ecumenism and the Local Church19: Sandra L. Barnes: Ecumenical Involvement between US Black and White Churches Revisited: Old Obstacles and New Opportunities20: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator SJ: Receptive Ecumenism in African Perspective: Beyond the Scandal of a Divided Foreign Religion21: Peter J. Casarella: Receptive Ecumenism in a Latin American Context: Catholic and Pentecostalist Learning in Relation to Mariology22: Néstor Medina: Unlikely Siblings? Pentecostal Ethico-theological Insights from Catholic Teaching on Mary23: Geraldine Hawkes: Australian Practices of Receptive Ecumenism24: Francis X. Clooney SJ: Comparative Theology's Interesting Asymmetries with Receptive Ecumenism25: John O'Brien: Two-eyed Vision: A Sufi Perspective on the Both/And Structure of Receptive EcumenismPart IV. Learning to be Receptive Ecclesial LearnersDiscerning the Dynamics of Ecclesial Learning26: Gregory A. Ryan: A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism's Hermeneutical Virtue27: Bradford E. Hinze: What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches through the Laments of the Faithful?28: Ormond Rush: Revelation, Sensus Fidelium, and Receptive Ecumenism29: Jeff Astley: What Prevents Christian Churches from Learning?30: Clare Watkins: Living Church: Practical Theology as a Locus for Ecumenical LearningBreaking the Bread of the Word Together31: Mike Higton: Receiving Scripture Again From One Another32: Vicky Balabanski and Michael Trainor: Learning to be Church: Virtues and Practices Leading towards Koinonia in Colossians and Acts33: John M.G. Barclay: Interdependence, Need, and Reciprocal Asymmetry in the Body of Christ: A Reading of 1 Corinthians 1234: David F. Ford: Mature Ecumenism's Daring Future: Learning from the Gospel of John for the Twenty-First CenturyReceiving the Spirit of Ecclesial Reform35: Catherine E. Clifford: Towards a Spirituality of Receptive Ecumenical Learning36: Callan Slipper: A Discipline for Living According to the Spirit: Chiara Lubich and Receptive Ecumenism37: Antonia Pizzey: Receptive Ecumenism and the Virtues38: Paul D. Murray: Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion