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Title: Receptive Ecumenism and Ecclesial Learning
Subtitle: Receiving Gifts for Our Needs
Author(s): MURRAY, Paul D.
Journal: Louvain Studies
Volume: 33    Issue: 1-2   Date: 2008   
Pages: 30-45
DOI: 10.2143/LS.33.1.2034334

Abstract :
Staff of the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University and its recently established Centre for Catholic Studies in particular – in collaboration with ecclesiologists, ecumenists, senior ecclesiastics, social scientists and local practitioners from across the Christian traditions and from academic and ecclesial contexts stretching from Australia, North America, and Europe – have been hosting a series of research projects devoted to developing and modelling a distinctive new strategy in Christian ecumenism which is being referred to as 'Receptive Ecumenism' and which has already been attracting considerable attention. This essay provides a short introduction to the key principles, convictions and assumptions at issue in Receptive Ecumenism and describes the projects currently underway that seek to test and model its potential.

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