In Search of a Way

Murray, Paul D.

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600847.013.45

In Search of a Way

Murray, Paul D.

Authors

Professor Paul Murray paul.murray@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

Geoffrey Wainwright
Editor

Paul McPartlan
Editor

Abstract

This chapter explores ecumenical methodology. It is organized in six sections. The first reflects on ecumenism as a ‘method’, a ‘way’, variously understood, about which there is a second-order methodological discourse concerning how it is best pursued. The second reflects on the variant approaches of ‘Life and Work’ ecumenism and ‘Faith and Order’ ecumenism. The third assesses some of the strategies which have hitherto been important in bilateral dialogue and identifies the need now for an ecumenical gearchange. The fourth section pursues this idea by focusing on a strategy which has come to be referred to as ‘receptive ecumenism’. Following an exploration of the methodological implications of this strategy in relation to bilateral dialogues in the fifth section, the sixth section finally explores its implications at the level of the local church.

Citation

Murray, P. D. (2017). In Search of a Way. In G. Wainwright, & P. McPartlan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Ecumenical studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600847.013.45

Online Publication Date	Nov 30, 2017
Publication Date	Nov 30, 2017
Deposit Date	Nov 20, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Nov 1, 2019
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Book Title	The Oxford handbook of Ecumenical studies.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600847.013.45

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Murray, Paul D. (2017). In Search of a Way. In The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies. Wainwright, Geoffrey & McPartlan, Paul Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600847.001.0001