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The students are able to demonstrate the time of emergence of the western confessional churches in their historical and theological contexts. They can explain the history and the context of the Ecumenical Movement. They are able to identify the most important forming powers of the Roman-Catholic Church in modern and present ages. The students can define and analyse the main issues of the current ecumenical dialogue. They are able to explicate the basic dynamics in understanding of ecumenical texts and ecumenical dialogues. They are able to describe and explain the diversity and differentiation of their own denomination.

Development of the Ecumenical Movement, Catholic principles of the Ecumenical Movement according to the Second Vatican Council, overview of the different churches and ecclesial communities (ecclesial structures and doctrine) with special regard to the Orthodox and Protestant profils; different models of unity.

Lecture.

Oral examination.
Subjects: Subject of lecture, and own study of:
1. “Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification”, in: Jeffrey Gros et. al. (eds), Growth in Agreement II: Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level, 1982–1998 (Faith and Order Paper No. 187), Geneva: WCC Publications 2000, 566–582; also to be found on the homepage of the Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html
2. one theological main issue (Peter Neuner, Ökumenische Theologie, Kapitel E, 185–296).

- Peter Neuner, Ökumenische Theologie: Die Suche nach der Einheit der christlichen Kirchen, Darmstadt 1997.
- Lothar Lies SJ, Grundkurs Ökumenische Theologie: Von der Spaltung zur Versöhnung. Modelle kirchlicher Einheit, Innsbruck 2005.
- Wolfgang Thönissen, Dogma und Symbol: Eine ökumenische Hermeneutik, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008.
- Zweites Vatikanisches Konzil, Unitatis Redintegratio.

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