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Apostolicity in Recent Lutheran-‐Roman Catholic Dialogue. John J ONE IN CHRIST CONTENTS VOL. 47 (2013) NO. 1 ARTICLES Apostolicity in Recent Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue. John J. Burkhard 2 Eschatology and Theological Dialogue: Insights from Adventist Interchurch Conversations. Stefan Höschele 29 Baptism and the Eucharist in BEM and wider ecumenical conversation: an Anglican perspective. Martin Davie 52 The Sacraments of Initiation in the Orthodox–Roman Catholic Dialogue and the Issue of Ecclesiality: A Eucharistic Ecclesiology Solution? Ştefăniţă Barbu 68 No Salvation Outside the Church? Evangelical Theologies and the Catholic Church. Glenn B. Siniscalchi 92 ADDRESSES On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of Vatican II: + Kevin McDonald 112 James Hawkey 122 Book launch: ‘Beyond the Walls: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein ...’ by J. R. Palmisano. Jim Corkery SJ 130 Week of Prayer Homily, Dublin, 2013. Frederick M. Bliss SM 135 DOCUMENTS & REPORTS ‘Baptism in the Holy Spirit’: International Ecumenical Congress, St Niklausen, Switzerland. Michelle Moran 142 An Ecumenical Covenant in Rome. Keith J. Pecklers SJ 126 ‘To express our faith in our contemporary culture.’ Communiqué from the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue of Canada. 151 Conference of the Joint Commission on Doctrine of the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. 153 ‘To Love and Serve the Lord.’ The Jerusalem Report of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission. David Carter 155 BOOK REVIEWS 163 1 EDITORIAL A broad spectrum of ecumenical activity is reflected in these pages, including reports and analyses of the following bilateral dialogues and interchurch conversations: Lutherans and Catholics (Burkhard); Orthodox and Catholics (Barbu); Evangelicals and Catholics (Siniscalchi); the Church of Scotland and Scottish Catholics (in reports); Catholics and Anglicans (Pecklers and Canadian communiqué in reports); and Anglicans and Lutherans (Carter). In addition, Höschele and Davie give comprehensive accounts of the various interchurch conversations which Adventists and Anglicans, respectively, have engaged in. The broader perspectives of Christian- Jewish (Corkery, +McDonald) and Christian-Muslim (Wright in reviews) relations and interconnections are also explored. Some inflection of exclusivism, intended or not, is rarely absent, when one church or faith group considers, or speaks of another. Issues of ecclesial and sacramental validity, which feature in a number of contributions, are especially sensitive in this respect. Two contributions speak of these matters, as it were, in a different tone of voice. First, Adventists, with their eschatological emphasis, remind us that the church, while the Body of Christ in time, is also penultimate to the pleroma (Höschele). Secondly—and sharing that eschatological consciousness—movements of Charismatic Renewal, including Catholic, with their experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit (Moran), may broaden the vision of any church that sees itself as the exclusive gatekeeper of salvation, or channel of sacramental grace. Fifty years after the opening of Vatican II, we include two anniversary items (+ McDonald, Hawkey). It is thanks to the Council that we are validated in our task—in the words of the former—of ‘identifying where the energy is in ecumenism’, and of ‘identifying and reclaiming our shared reality’. 2 APOSTOLICITY IN RECENT LUTHERAN-ROMAN CATHOLIC DIALOGUE John J. Burkhard* Apostolicity and apostolic succession have been divisive issues between Roman Catholics and the churches that issued from the Reformation. In recent years, Catholics and Lutherans have worked hard to identify what they hold in common on them. The 2006 document of the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, The Apostolicity of the Church, has made a major contribution in identifying points of consensus, of differentiated consensus, and of disagreement requiring further discussion. This article reviews the contents of this important ecumenical study and its reception by representatives of the two churches. The theme of apostolicity has continued to be of interest in the ongoing dialogue between Lutherans and Roman Catholics. Apostolicity is still a neuralgic issue between the churches and it continues to defy easy solution. It is wrapped up in a congeries of considerations that include both apostolicity of the faith and apostolicity of office and includes the thorny issues of episcopacy and apostolic succession. Still, considerable progress has been made in recent years. The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, signed on 31 October 1999 by both the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church has cleared the air between the churches and encouraged more positive steps on other divisive issues.1 Thus, * The Rev. John J. Burkhard is a Conventual Franciscan friar who has taught systematic theology for over forty years in the United States at St. Anthony- on-Hudson Franciscan Seminary, the Catholic University of America, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., and the Washington Theological Union, as well as at St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Cape Coast, Ghana. He was also Academic Dean and President at two of these institutions. Currently, he is writing a book on the meaning of charism. 1 The Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000). Also in Growth in Agreement II: Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level, 1982-98, 3 ONE IN CHRIST VOL. 47 NO. 1 the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity, established shortly after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), in 2006 published the important document The Apostolicity of the Church: Study Document of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity.1 This document represents a break-through on many issues relating to apostolicity and it has elicited a series of helpful responses that seek both to clarify the points of agreement between the two churches and to signal the issues that demand further attention by the Commission. In this article I intend to summarize the contents of The Apostolicity of the Church and then to examine the responses to it.2 In a concluding section, I will point out one direction the dialogue needs to take on apostolicity at this juncture. Summary of the Study Document The Apostolicity of the Church The Apostolicity of the Church was published under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and represents the results of consultations conducted between 1995 and 2006. The document, it should be noted, is not an agreed statement of the two churches but represents the results of the consultations in the form of a Study Document preparatory to any eventual ecumenical accord. Rich in detail and suggestive of many areas of agreement, the Study deserves greater attention. The Study consists of four parts: (1) New Testament Foundations of the notion of apostleship and the apostolicity of the church (1-64);3 (2) the primacy of the apostolicity of the gospel and the resulting apostolicity of the church (65-164); (3) issues of ordained ministry and eds. Jeffrey Gros, Harding Meyer and William G. Rusch (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000), 566-82. 1 The Apostolicity of the Church: Study Document of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity (Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2006). The Centro Pro Unione in Rome has made the text available online at http://www.prounione.urbe.it/dia-int/l-rc/doc/e_l-rc_ap-01.html. 2 The Study had not yet appeared before the publication of my book Apostolicity Then and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004). My book covers much of the same ground studied in The Apostolicity of the Church. 3 Unless otherwise noted, the numbers in the text and in parenthesis refer to the appropriate numbered paragraphs in the Study Document. BURKHARD Apostolicity in Recent Lutheran-RC Dialogue 4 the nature of apostolic succession in ministry (165-293); and (4) the role of authoritative teaching in the church and its connection to the apostolicity of the church (294-460). The method of the Study contains common sections written by representatives of both churches. These include general scriptural, historical, and theological background, as well as mutually agreed-on statements. It also includes separate treatments by Lutherans and Catholics of topics where differences of interpretation continue to exist or where the churches place different emphases. The latter include ‘A Catholic Ecumenical Vision of Participated Apostolicity’ (106-123) and ‘An Ecumenical Lutheran Account of the Apostolicity of the Church’ (124-143); ‘Vatican II on the Ordained Ministry’ (235-251) and ‘The Ordained Ministry in Lutheran Teaching Today’ (252-269); and ‘The Church Maintained in the Truth according to the Lutheran Reformation’ (355-389) and ‘Catholic Doctrine on the Biblical Canon, Interpretation of Scripture, and the Teaching Office’ (390-428). It is not possible to present the Study’s contents in detail, and I must content myself with highlighting the principal points of scholarly agreement, as well as the points where Lutheran and Roman Catholic scholars diverge in their interpretations. Part One is entitled ‘The Apostolicity of the Church—New Testament Foundations.’ 1-13 begin by claiming that for both Catholics and Lutherans Scripture is normative, even though our two traditions diverge on some interpretations of these
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