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The students can demonstrate the emergence of the western confessional churches in their historical and theological connections. They can explain the history of the Ecumenical Movement. They can identify the ecumenical engagement 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 can describe and explain the diversity of the Roman-Catholic Church.

Development of the Ecumenical Movement, Catholic principles of the Ecumenical Movement, overview of the different confessional churches and ecclesial communities, different models of unity.

Lecture.

Oral examination. Subjects: Subjects of lecture, and own study of:

“Joint Declaration on 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 Vatican Homepage: http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/dialoghi/sezione-occidentale/luterani/dialogo/documenti-di-dialogo/1999-dichiarazione-congiunta-sulla-dottrina-della-giustificazion/en.html

General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department:  https://www.uibk.ac.at/systheol/lehre/pruefungen.html.en.

– 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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