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Beyond the Reformation? - Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition (Paperback)
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Beyond the Reformation? - Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition (Paperback)
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Beyond the Reformation? sheds fresh light on divisive issues of
authority in the Christian Church and puts them in a new historical
and ecumenical perspective. Against the background of the perennial
tension between the mystical and the institutional dynamics in the
life of the Church, it goes beyond the tragic divisions of the
Reformation era in two major ways. First, it examines the power
struggles of the medieval period, the largely abortive attempts at
reform, and the theological solutions to apparently intractable
divisions that were proposed by the Conciliar Movement and enacted
by the reforming councils of the fifteenth century. It shows how
the legacy of conciliar theology was both continued and modified by
the Continental and Anglican Reformers and how this has shaped the
churches in the modern world. It examines the question of
continuity and discontinuity in the Reformation, seeing that event
as an unresolved argument within the family of the Western Church.
But this book also seeks to move beyond the Reformation in a second
way. Drawing on Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican
theology, the book explores the theme of conciliar and primatial
authority in relation to the ecumenical quest for reconciliation
and unity in the fragmented Church of today. In this major,
ground-breaking work, Anglican theologian and ecumenist Paul Avis
adds to his repertoire of studies of authority in the Christian
Church, brings together historical, confessional and ecumenical
aspects of ecclesiology, and charts a course for convergence
between the major traditions on the thorny questions of authority,
primacy and unity.
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