You Are Peter : An Orthodox Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy

OLIVIER CLEMENT

ISBN 10: 1565481895 / ISBN 13: 9781565481893

Verlag: New City Press August 2003, 2003

Beschreibung

Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint concluded with an invitation for other Christians to seriously dialogue with Rome concerning the nature of the papacy. This book represents one Orthodox theologian's RSVP. Clement's intimate familiarity with the patristic era serves him well in his sketching the outlines of what was meant by primacy in the first millennium: something much more than the pope as ''first among equals,'' something much less than Pope Pius IX's famous claim ''I am Tradition,'' put forward as a definition of infallibility emerged from Vatican I in 1870. One could not ask for a more irenic or balanced response to John Paul's challenge, and it deserves a hearing not only from Roman Catholics but also from Orthodox skeptical of ecumenical engagement with Rome.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: You Are Peter : An Orthodox Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy
• Verlag: New City Press August 2003
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1565481895
• ISBN-13: 9781565481893
• Einband: Paper Back
• Zustand: New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Eastern Christendom

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Inhaltsangabe

The papacy is clearly the greatest difficulty facing ecumenical dialogue today, and particularly the dialogue between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Yet there is a doorway of hope. In his encyclical, Ut unum sint, John Paul II expressed a desire for common reflection on the exercise of papal primacy. In You Are Peter the great Orthodox theologian Olivier Clement brilliantly responds to this request. He emphasizes the history and experience of the undivided Church, before recalling the contrasting developments of eastern and western Christianity and concluding with the tasks that call us to unity. Professor Clements response to John Paul II [is] solidly rooted in the Orthodox tradition, [and] represents the cordial and open mentality characteristic of the theologians of Saint Sergius. I would judge that it is almost exactly the kind of response for which Pope John Paul II was hoping. It is a pleasure to be able to present to English-speaking readers this concise, learned, and articulate presentation.... Professor Clements contribution ... is a sign of the progress [in ecumenism] thus far made and a beacon of hope for the future. From the Foreword by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Laurence J. McGinley Professor Fordham University, New York

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Olivier-Maurice Clément (1921-2009) was one of the foremost Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. He actively promoted the reunification of Christians (he was friends with Pope John Paul II), dialogue between Christians and people of other beliefs, and the engagement of Christian thinkers with modern thought and society. As a history professor, he taught at the Louis-le-Grand lyceum in Paris for a long time. As a professor of the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Institut Saint-Serge) he became one of the most highly regarded witnesses to Orthodox Christianity, as well as one of the most prolific. He was a founder of the Orthodox Fellowship in Western Europe, and was the author of thirty books on the life, thought and history of the Orthodox Church, and their meeting with other Christians, the non-Christian religions and modernity. He was responsible for the theological journal, Contacts, and became a Doctor honoris causa at the Institute for theology in Bucharest and at the Catholic University in Louvain.