Sentences with phrase «catholic joint declaration»

Significant convergences on doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in, for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.

Her account of Lutheran - Catholic differences closely parallels that of certain German and American Protestants who have opposed the recent Lutheran - Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

Unlike the Lutheran - Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification issued earlier this year, this statement is not the result of an officially sponsored dialogue, but the collaborative work of individuals who speak from and to, but not for, our several communities.

Not exact matches

For example, many churches of the ILC feel the doctrine of justification needs additional discussion beyond the work accomplished in the landmark LWF - Catholic document Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

Referring to the 1999 Joint Declaration of the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, Phillip Cary («Luther at 500,» November) optimistically notes its «theological consensus that Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone need not be Church - dividing.»

Like The Gift of Salvation statement issued by Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1997, the Joint Declaration represents a measure of convergence between Catholic and Reformational understandings of that article of faith by which the Church either stands or falls, to quote a favorite Lutheran saying.

He was one of the most prominent academic defenders in Germany of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the 1999 agreement on the doctrine of justification between the Catholic Church and the churches of the Lutheran World Federation that was violently attacked by a significant portion of his colleagues.

Yet this year Lutheran and Roman Catholic theologians issued an official proposal for a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church is available as part of Ecumenical Proposals: Lutheran - Episcopal, Lutheran - Reformed, and Lutheran - Roman Catholic, from Augsburg Fortress (tel. [phone], order code # 69 - 3092; $ 1 plus postage and handling.)

For the major instance so far, the Joint Declaration on Justification between the Catholic Church and world Lutheranism would probably have been rejected by Rome except for the influence on the final draft of the Lutheran bishop of Helsinki.

After years of work under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Catholic and Lutheran theologians have produced a Joint Declaration on Justification.

The exception is the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation on October 31, 1999.

In paragraph 25, the Moscow Patriarchate finally acknowledges that Eastern Catholics actually have a right to exist and to minister to their flocks, something the Joint Orthodox - Catholic Balamand Declaration in 1993 clearly stated.

A few ambiguous or even unfortunate paragraphs in the Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill will have little effect on the inner vitality of this Church, which comes from a deep inner calling to bring the Orthodox and Catholic worlds back into communion with each other.