Changing the Church

This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives. The volume contributors offer answers to questions such as: What needs to be changed in the universal church and in the particular denominations? How has change influenced the life of the church? What are the dangers that change brings with it? What awaits the church if it refuses to change? Many of the essays focus on people who have changed the church significantly and on events that have catalyzed change, for the better or for the worse. Some also present visions of change for particular Christian denominations, whether over the ordination of the women, different approaches to sexuality, reform of the magisterium, and many other issues related to change.

Auteur

Mark D. Chapman is Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK, and Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon. He is a Church of England priest and Canon of Truro Cathedral.

Vladimir Latinovic is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Tübingen, and project manager at the Academy DRS in Stuttgart. He serves as director and vice-chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

Contenu

1. Introduction Vladimir Latinovic and Mark Chapman Part I: History and Theology

2. From Rigor to Reconciliation: Cyprian of Carthage on Changing Penitential Practice David G. Hunter

3. Who do You Call a Heretic? Fluid Notions of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Late Antiquity
   Vladimir Latinovic

   4. Towards a Theology of Dissent
      Judith Gruber

4. Theology of Church Reform and Institutional Crisis: Reading Yves Congar in the Twenty-first Century
   Massimo Faggioli

   Part II: Society and Gender

   6. Sisterhood of the Earth: An Emergence of an Ecological Civilization and an Ecozoic Era
      Elaine Padilla

5. Developing a Virtue of Eating Well: Laudato Sí and Animal Economies
   Matthew Eaton

   8. Noli Me Tángere: A Church for the Oppressed Putting the Abused and Vulnerable at the Forefront of Ecclesial Activity and Change Cristina Lledo Gomez

6. The Essence of Faith: Prayer as Ritual and Struggle
   Mary McClintock Fulkerson

7. The Holy Spirit Makes the Church: Changing the Church as a Responsive Act
   Scott MacDougall

8. Making the Spiritual World Accessible: Paul VI and Modern Art at the Close of Vatican II Susie Paulik Babka

   12. Women Changing the Church: The Experience of the Council for Australian Catholic Women 2000-2019
       Patricia Madigan OP

   13. The Unity of the Church and Birth Control in an Age of Polarization
       Dennis M. Doyle
       Part III: Mission and World Christianity

9. The World Mission of the Christian Church
   Roger Haight, S.J.

10. Conversion and Change Through the Processes of Mission and Christianization
    Paul M. Collins

11. Mission as Reception: Reframing Evangelism in the Church of England
    Martyn Percy

12. The Refugee Crisis as an Opportunity for Missionary and Pastoral Conversion
    Gioacchino Campese

13. Blessed Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church
    Darren J. Dias

14. Changing the Church: An African Theological Reflection
    Stan Chu Ilo

15. The Revolutionary Power of the Church
    Debora Tonelli

16. The Implications of Transient Migration and Online Communities for Changing the Church in Asia

    Jonathan Y. Tan

    Part IV: Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue

17. Liturgical Renewal and Ecumenical Progress
    John Borelli

18. Changing the Catholic Church's Interreligious Relationships: Irish American Pioneers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
    Leo D. Lefebure
19. Is Interreligious dialogue changing the Church? The Significance of the Document on Human Fraternity
    Roberto Catalano
    
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