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The reception of the Balamand declaration (1993-2018) and current relations between the Orthodox and Oriental churches and their Catholic sister churches
Leuven, November 26 - 28, 2018Conference theme
25 years ago the international dialogue
commission between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church agreed
upon a short document entitled Uniatism, Method of Union of the Past, and the Present Search for Full Communion.
The document was written in the hope to smoothen the tensions that had
arisen between Orthodox/Oriental churches and their Catholic
counterparts in different countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Its reception was quite diverse and also nowadays Orthodox churches such
as the Russian Orthodox Church regularly insist that the “problem of
uniatism” should be solved before any substantial progress can be made
in the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue. In this colloquium we will reread the
Balamand declaration after 25 years and will investigate whether the
theology of ‘sister churches’ it developed was sufficiently received in
Orthodox and Roman Catholic ecclesiology. As far as the “problem of
uniatism” is concerned we want to test the hypothesis that it makes more
sense to study the reception of the Balamand declaration as well as the
history of the relations between Orthodox and Oriental churches and
their Catholic sister churches in specific geographical contexts rather
than providing a general answer. We will pay specific attention to the
contexts of Ukraine, Romania, the Balkans and the Middle East.
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2 comments:
Thank you Dr Noble for posting this announcement
One question: how can a lay person gain access to the presentations after the meeting?
regards Elias Nasser
As I understand it, the presentations will eventually be published together as a volume. Of course, that means in all likelihood that they'll appear in 2020 or so, but hopefully I'll be able to call attention to it when it comes out.
Best,
Sam
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