Harvesting the Fruits Basic Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue

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The Second Vatican Council in its Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) declared the restoration of unity among Christians to be one of its principal concerns. Division among the Churches scandalises the world and damages that most holy cause, the preaching of The Gospel to every creature. A key figure in the Roman Catholic Church to have worked tirelessly at these aims is Cardinal Walter Kasper, one of the most experienced, authoritative, and respected members of the Vatican hierarchy.

Introduction	p. 1
Fundamentals of our Common Faith: Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity	p. 10
Introduction	p. 10
The Gospel of Jesus Christ	p. 12
The Creeds	p. 14
The Holy Trinity	p. 16
The Holy Trinity as Principle of Communion	p. 16
The Holy Trinity in Salvation History	p. 19
The Father: source of salvation history	p. 19
Jesus Christ: the Incarnate Word, Lord and Saviour	p. 20
The Holy Spirit: Lord and giver of life	p. 24
Reflections on Chapter One	p. 27
Salvation, Justification, Sanctification	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Basic Consensus on Justification	p. 33
The Essential Points of the Joint Declaration	p. 33
Basic common understanding of justification	p. 33
Compatibility in aspects of justification	p. 35
Conclusion on the mutual condemnations	p. 38
Issues for further work toward visible unity	p. 38
Towards a Wider Consensus on the Doctrine of Justification	p. 40
Justification and Sanctification	p. 42
Reflections on Chapter Two	p. 44
The Church	p. 48
Introduction	p. 48
Common Perspectives on the Nature and Mission of the Church	p. 51
The Trinitarian Basis of the Church	p. 52
The Church, the People of God called by God the Father	p. 52
The Church, the Body of Christ	p. 55
The Church, Temple of the Holy Spirit	p. 59
The Mission of the Church - Church and Kingdom of God	p. 62
The Church and the Kingdom of God	p. 62
The Church as instrument of salvation	p. 66
The Church as sacrament of the Kingdom of God	p. 68
Church as Communion/Koinonia	p. 72
Communion in the ARCIC documents	p. 72
Communion in the other dialogues	p. 76
Source of Authority in the Church	p. 78
Primary Authority of Jesus Christ	p. 78
The Apostolicity of the Church	p. 80
The whole Church on the foundation of the Aposdes	p. 80
Succession in apostolic ministry	p. 83
Issues to be resolved	p. 86
Scripture and Tradition	p. 87
Beyond old conflicts: interrelation between Scripture and Tradition	p. 88
The Word of God as common source of Scripture and Tradition	p. 92
The New Testament as Product of the living tradition of the Gospels	p. 95
The importance of the early Councils of the Church	p. 97
The Ministry in the Church	p. 99
The Ministry and Mission of the Whole People of God	p. 99
Ordained Ministry	p. 102
The ARCIC consensus on ordained ministry	p. 102
The ordained ministry: an integral element of the Church	p. 103
Ordination: sacrament and sacramental ministry	p. 104
The threefold ministry in the apostolic succession	p. 107
Remaining issues	p. 108
The ordained ministry according to the other dialogues	p. 110
The ordained ministry: an integral element of the Church	p. 110
Constitutive elements of ordination	p. 113
The emergence of the threefold ministry	p. 115
Remaining questions	p. 117
Convergences Towards a Common Understanding of Episcopé	p. 119
Episcopé as element of the ministry in the Church	p. 119
Episcopé as an instrument of unity	p. 121
Episcopé and collegiality	p. 123
Ministry: Exercised within the Church Local and Universal	p. 125
Local and universal dimensions of the Church	p. 125
Communion and conciliar structures of the Church	p. 126
Remaining issuer	p. 131
Universal Primacy/Petrine Ministry	p. 133
Teaching Authority: Maintaining the Church in the Truth	p. 137
Teaching authority in ARCIC	p. 138
Teaching authority in the other dialogues	p. 141
Reflections on Chapter Three	p. 149
The Sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Towards a Common Perspective on the Sacraments	p. 161
Common Understanding of Baptism	p. 164
The Eucharist	p. 168
Consensus on Eucharist in the Anglican-Catholic Dialogue	p. 168
The centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the Church	p. 169
Eucharist: memorial and sacrifice	p. 170
Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist	p. 171
Epiclesis rediscovered	p. 173
The ordained minister of the Eucharist	p. 174
Issues for further study	p. 175
Eucharist in the other Dialogues	p. 176
The centrality of the- Eucharist in the life of the Church	p. 177
Eucharist: memorial and sacrifice	p. 178
Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist	p. 180
Epiclesis rediscovered	p. 182
The ordained minister of the Eucharist	p. 184
Issues for further study	p. 186
Reflections on Chapter Four	p. 190
Some Preliminary Conclusions	p. 196
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