Pathways for Ecclesial Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting Ecumenical Method

Product Description This volume identifies a myriad of obstacles standing in the way of dialogue both within churches and between churches and then move on to discuss how these obstacles might be dissolved or circumvented. The contributors explore all the ways through which ecclesial dialogue can be re-energized and adapted for a new century. About the Author Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK. He is also Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK, and Assistant Priest in his local Church of England parish. He has written widely in the fields of Ecclesiology, Anglicanism, and Church history. His latest books are The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism, 1833-1882 (2014) and Theology and Society in Three Cities: Berlin, Oxford and Chicago, 1800-1914 (2014). Miriam Haar has submitted her dissertation Apostolicity in Dialogue: A Study of Multilateral and Bilateral Ecumenical Dialogues at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She studied in Germany, Switzerland, and Lebanon, and received a Master of Philosophy Degree in Ecumenics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, having previously been awarded a Graduate Degree in Protestant Theology from the University of Tubingen, Germany. "