Marian Studies Volume 15 Article 7 1-24-1964 Our Lady's Coredemption as an Ecumenical Problem Robert E. Hunt Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/marian_studies Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, Christianity Commons, and the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Hunt, Robert E. (1964) "Our Lady's Coredemption as an Ecumenical Problem," Marian Studies: Vol. 15, Article 7, Pages 48-86. Available at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/marian_studies/vol15/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Marian Library Publications at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Marian Studies by an authorized editor of eCommons. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Hunt: Our Lady's Coredemption as an Ecumenical Problem OUR LADY'S COREDEMPTION AS AN ECUMENICAL PROBLEM In the presidential address to the thirteenth annual conven tion of the Mariological Society of America at New Orleans two years ago, Father Walter Burghardt set forth the role of the mariologist as ecumenist.1 On the theological level, he said, "the ecumenical effort has for its function to restudy those doctrinal themes which have proved divisive, to determine to what extent division is inevitable, in what measure a matter of misunderstanding; in a word, an effort at theological clarification: where do we really differ, and why?"2 And if it is true that for the mariologist "the heart of the matter is the problem of development,''3 it is also true that the single Marian themes enjoy proper characteristics as ecumenical issues.