Rogier van der Weyden, Seven Sacraments Altarpiece. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Below we have listed the 2009 Conference papers by author and title. Soon we will be posting extended excerpts from the papers themselves to be downloaded. Feel free to share these with your various social networking sites, leave your comments and continue the discussions we started in January.
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"Faith, Church and Ecumenical Dialogue: A Contribution from the Life of Communion and Liberation"
Dr Alessandra Gerolin addressed the question of ecumenical dialogue and friendship from the perspective of the influential and theologically-sophisticated religious movement Communion and Liberation of which she is a member. Having set the scene by describing the remarkable beginnings of the movement in the work of Fr Luigi Giussani, she goes on:
The Church as a Visionary Community: Ecclesiology and Intellectual, Aesthetic, and Moral Discernment
What I am suggesting here is that the transcendent body of Christ, the resurrected body, redefines the human body from a more exalted, in fact, glorified position - so that the properties of co-abiding in Christ's body are communicated to the human body and to the church through the Spirit. This does not merely boil down to: I do not naturally as a human body belong to the body of Christ. Though, baptism "by (en) the one Spirit" marks an ontological shift from being in the world to being en Christo (a favourite use by Paul of the dative of location). But then neither members nor Christ are translated out of this world - the use of en suggests rather another level of ontological intensity available in this world but not concurrent with it. There is an incorporation effected by baptism and this incorporation does not leave the human body as such unchanged.
Parochial Ecology on St Briavell’s Common: An Ecclesial Theology of the Commons
From Baptism, a New Creature: Theological reflections on Luigi Giussani's Thought
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