FOREWORD |
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INTRODUCTION |
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I. ECUMENICAL RECEPTION: VITAL FOR ACHIEVING UNITY |
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A. RECEPTION IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW |
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B. ECUMENICAL RECEPTION |
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C. CONTINUALLY RECEIVING THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT AND ITS RESULTS IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCHES |
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D. ECUMENICAL RECEPTION IN THE REFLECTION OF THE JOINT WORKING GROUP |
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E. LEARNING POINTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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II. HOW ECUMENICAL RECEPTION HAPPENS: THE EXPERI-ENCE OF CHRISTIAN WORLD COMMUNIONS |
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A. THE PROCESSES OF RECEPTION |
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B. HOW THE PROCESSES WORK |
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C.LEARNING POINTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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III. OVERCOMING THE DIVISIONS OF THE PAST: RECEPTION PROMOTING RECONCILLIATION |
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A. THE NEW CONTEXT FOSTERING RECEPTION |
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B. TOWARDS OVERCOMING FIFTH CENTURY DIVISIONS |
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a. BISHOPS OF ROME AND ORIENTAL ORTHODOX PATRIARCHS |
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b. THE BISSHOPS OF ROME AND THE PATRIARCH OF THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST |
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c. THE OFFICIAL DIALOGUE OF THE EASTERN ORTHODOX AND ORIENTAL |
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d. CHRISTOLOGICAL AGREEMENT OF THE EASTERN ORTHODOX AND ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES |
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C. TOWARD OVERCOMING THE DIVISIONS OF 1054 |
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D. TOWARDS OVERCOMING DIVISIONS FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
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a. THE COMMUNITY OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN EUROPE - THE LEUENBERG CONCORD |
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b. THE COMMUNITY OF BRITISH AND IRISH ANGLICAN CHURCHES AND NORDIC AND BALTIC LUTHERAN CHURCHES - THE PORVOO COMMUNION |
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E. THE ROLE OF THE SPONSORING BODIES AS AGENTS OF RECEPTION |
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a. AN EXAMPLE OF ECUMENICAL RECEPTION WITHIN THE WCC ITSELF |
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b. AN EXAMPLE OF THE WCC RECEIVING THE RESULTS OF A BILATERAL DIALOGUE REPORT |
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c. FORUM ON BILATERAL DIALOGUES |
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d. THE CONTINUING RECEPTION OF BAPTISM, EUCHARIST AND MINISTRY |
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F. LEARNING POINTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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1. LEARNING POINTS |
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2. RECOMMENDATIONS |
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IV: WHEN ECUMENICAL RECEPTION IS A STRUGGLE |
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A. CHALLENGES TO RECEPTION |
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B. LEARNING POINT AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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V. ECUMENICAL FORMATION: A KEY TO ECUMENICAL RECEPTION |
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A. FORMATION AND RECEPTION |
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B. TRACING THE HISTORY OF ECUMENICAL FORMATION IN THE JWG CONTEXT |
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C. ARTICULATING ECUMENICAL FORMATION |
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D. LEARNING POINTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
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VI. CONCLUSION: AN APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES |
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AN APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES |
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