(SSJC) - The first Joint Theology Seminary of the new Centre for Eastern Christianity and Heythrop College will take place on the afternoon of 26th January 2011. In connection with the current concern of the international Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, the focus will be on the Petrine ministry of the Bishop of Rome and the role of the papacy in the universal Church. Part of the context is the removal by Pope Benedict XVI of the title, "Patriarch of the West". To some on the Catholic side of the dialogue, the title was irrelevant, referring to long historic conditions and thus defunct. Indeed, it has been claimed that it thus stood in the way of a genuine dialogue towards reunion in the conditions of the present. But to others and to many Orthodox, it appeared to disturb the arrangements that obtained before schism set in, especially the pentarchy of the historic patriarchates, and thus made it more difficult to retrace steps in the search for lost unity. The Seminar will look at all these issues as they affect - and are affected by - respective canonical principles and the sense of the Church's identity we have as Catholics and Orthodox.Complete details here.
Canon Law and the Politics of Ecclesial Identity:
The Patriarch of the West:
contemporary Catholic & Orthodox perspectives
Dr Peter Petkoff
Wednesday 26 January 2011, 4.30pm -6.00pm
The Hopkins Room
Heythrop College, University of London, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What role the Patriarch of the West?
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When one has, as the Papacy does, "irreformable infallible" dogmas that need to be retracted, that presents a problem when discussing union.
ReplyDeleteI treat the patriarchal office extensively in my *Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy* available here: http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01438
ReplyDeleteThat is true, but, much as when I approach dinner I don't try and eat it in one bite plate and all, the Met. Hilarion approach (honest discussion of one topic at a time without expectation that each discussion is "the key" to reunion) takes these sorts of targeted discussions as imperative to finding our way to dessert. :)
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