{"id":1789,"date":"2009-04-24T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T09:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/1828"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:53:18","slug":"kardinal-avery-dulles-betydning-for-%c3%b8kumenikken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2009\/04\/kardinal-avery-dulles-betydning-for-%c3%b8kumenikken\/","title":{"rendered":"Kardinal Avery Dulles\u2019 betydning for \u00f8kumenikken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeg har skrevet om Avery Dulles (som d\u00f8de i fjor h\u00f8st) f\u00f8r (se her<\/a>), og vil i dag ta med litt om hans betydning for \u00f8kumeniske samtaler, fra en artikkel om ham i siste nummer av First Things<\/a> (Why Avery Dulles Matters – av Thomas G. Guarino). Her er en liten del av artikkelen, som handler om Dulles’ \u00f8kumeniske arbeid (under mine \u00f8kumeniske studier for tre \u00e5r siden, s\u00e5 jeg hvor enorm betydning Dulles hadde for de katolsk-lutherske dialogene i USA for noen ti\u00e5rsiden):<\/p>\n

Dulles\u2019 involvement with ecumenism goes back to the 1950s – and by the Second Vatican Council\u2019s strong endorsement of this element of ecclesial life. Vatican II\u2019s accent on ecumenism reversed the earlier teaching of Mortalium Animos, a 1928 papal encyclical warning against the progressive movement engineered by \u201cpan-Christians.\u201d The papal letter was legitimately concerned that any tendency toward pan-Christianity, as it was styled, could easily devolve into a limp-wristed ecclesiology, an understanding of the Church stressing those dimensions uniting Christians while blithely ignoring the crucial elements still dividing them, leading inexorably to the thin gruel of a \u201clowest common denominator\u201d faith.<\/p>\n

But Vatican II boldly moved beyond these earlier fears, insisting that an honest and integral ecumenism benefited all Christians. For some time prior to the council, the ecumenical movement had been at the theological edges of the Church. Yves Congar, the great Dominican ecclesiologist, had written a groundbreaking book in 1937, Divided Christendom, which caused an uneasy stir among the Catholic hierarchy. Congar spoke of the gifts of Protestantism in tones that the Catholic ear was unaccustomed to hear. After Congar\u2019s innovative work came several important dialogues with the powerful theology of Karl Barth, among which was the incisive three-volume treatment of the French Jesuit Henri Bouillard. … Dulles completed a doctoral dissertation at the Gregorian University in 1960 entitled \u201cProtestant Churches and the Prophetic Office.\u201d From that time until his death, Dulles was tirelessly engaged in ecumenical work.<\/p>\n

In a significant 1968 volume, Revelation and the Quest for Unity, Dulles argued for a Catholic understanding of sola scriptura, takes welcome note of the accent on tradition found in the groundbreaking Faith and Order report of 1963, and reflected on the contributions of the Orthodox Churches to the ecumenical movement. Later, he would be an enthusiastic participant in the important dialogues between Lutherans and Catholics in the United States. The 1985 statement on justification, \u201cJustification by Faith,\u201d for example, remains a compelling milestone of theological reflection and agreement, one of the crucial documents setting the stage for the 1999 groundbreaking accord between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation established by the \u201cJoint Declaration on \u00adJustification.\u201d <\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n

Together with Richard John Neuhaus and Chuck Colson, Dulles was also one of the original architects of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, the daring enterprise pursuing greater agreement between two groups with seemingly little in common, whether culturally or theologically. Indeed, some thought wedding Athens and Jerusalem child\u2019s play compared to meshing Birmingham and Gotham. From the beginning, however, Dulles\u2019 status as a universally respected theologian of international repute added theological ballast to the dialogues, ensuring that they would be regarded as far more than the convenient political alliance that was sometimes cynically suspected. The steady theological work of Evangelicals and Catholics Together has continued unabated since its beginnings in 1994, achieving significant convergences on issues such as justification, the relationship between Scripture and tradition, and the intense witness to the \u201cculture of life\u201d in the public square. (The forthcoming statement on Mary, the Mother of God, was largely completed just before the cardinal\u2019s death).<\/p>\n

Fair to say, the cardinal\u2019s lifelong and unyielding commitment to Christian unity was\u2014and will remain\u2014an inspiration to all of the participants in Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Of Cardinal Newman, Dulles once wrote: \u201cIn him the convert spoke louder than the ecumenist.\u201d Perhaps we may say that, in Dulles, both convert and ecumenist spoke equally well. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeg har skrevet om Avery Dulles (som d\u00f8de i fjor h\u00f8st) f\u00f8r (se her), og vil i dag ta med litt om hans betydning for \u00f8kumeniske samtaler, fra en artikkel om ham i siste nummer av First Things (Why Avery Dulles Matters – av Thomas G. Guarino). Her er en liten del av artikkelen, som […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okumenikk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}