E cclesiological I nvestigations International Research Network Scholarship for the Church of Churches Newsletter October 2013 Dear Friends, Hoping this finds you and your loved ones keeping very well. Some important and exciting items of news to let you all know about. These are very exciting times for the church of churches. Do get involved and keep in touch. Gerard Mannion A. Hope in the Ecumenical Future: Eighth EI International Conference: Oxford 2014 – April 9-11: B. Belgrade 2013 – Brief Report, Follow-up, Photos C. EI at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: Baltimore November 23-26 2013 – Full Details of Five Fabulous Sessions D. Publications: a. New and recently released titles in the Continuum/Bloomsbury Ecclesiological Investigations Series: b. Ecclesiology: the Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity – call for submissions c. Launch of Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography d. Assisi 2012 – Pathways for Dialogue Publications E. Job Opening in Jewish-Christian Dialogue at the Catholic University of Leiven/Louvain, Belgium F. Tell us Your News A. Eighth EI International Conference: Oxford 2014 – April 9-11: Hope in the Ecumenical Future Dates for your Diary - The Seventh Ecclesiological Investigations International Conference will be jointly staged at Ripon College, Cuddesdon and Oxford University between April 9-11 2014. The theme will be Hope in the Ecumenical Future and will focus on issues such as the concept and role of hope in the ecumenical movement, ecumenical method and what the future holds in store for ecclesial, interfaith and church-world dialogue if signs that the ecumenical winter may be drawing to a close prove true. Full details of registration will follow in the coming weeks. Although under construction, for future reference, the address is here. B. Belgrade 2013 – Brief Report, Follow-up, Photos The Ecclesiological Investigations International Conference on ‘Religion, Authority and the State: from Constantine to the Secular and Beyond’ in June was a tremendous success. Opened by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej, it featured a wonderful collection of both plenary and concurrent papers and our Serbian hosts made us very welcome indeed. Thank you to each and every one of our speakers, organizing team and those who attended. We will be following up with regard to publishing the fruits of this gathering in the near future. Meanwhile, you can enjoy some photos of the gathering here. C. EI at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: Baltimore November 23-26 2013 – Full Details of Five Fabulous Sessions We have a tremendous line-up of speakers and themes at this year’s AAR. You can spend your entire Annual Meeting immersed in ecclesiological investigations as there will be five EI-related sessions this year, including a special session on the new Faith and Order Convergence Document, ‘The Church’, from the World Council of Churches and also a joint session with the Vatican II Studies Group, in addition to that Group’s stand-alone opening session. Full details below. The full AAR Program Book can be found here. 1. A23-135 Vatican II Studies Group Theme: Vatican II in 1963 and Its First Results: The Challenges of Liturgical Reform Massimo Faggioli, University of Saint Thomas, Minnesota, Presiding Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-329 Featuring: Georgia M. Keightley, Alexandria, VA Sacrosanctum Concilium's Incarnational Ecclesiology Pierson Shaw, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto Sacrosanctum Concilium’s Call for Liturgical Renewal: New Tensions Raised by the Apostolic Tradition Jonathan Tan, Australian Catholic University The Impact of Sacrosanctum Concilium on Liturgical Renewal in Asia Nicholas Denysenko, Loyola Marymount University Sacrosanctum Concilium and Liturgical Ressourcement in the Orthodox Church Catherine Osborne, Franklin and Marshall College "I Fear the Fixed Point of View": Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Flexible Worship Space in the United States Responding: Gilles Routhier, Université Laval Business Meeting: Peter De Mey, Catholic University of Leuven 2. A23-223 Ecclesiological Investigations Group Theme: The Managerial Turn and the Thinning of Denominational Identity Mark Chapman, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Presiding Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Convention Center-329 Featuring: Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford Economized or Elasticized? Managerialism, Sectarianism, and the Identity of Christianity Martyn Percy, Ripon College, Oxford Inward Turns in the Church of England: Management as a Function of Organizational Bureaucracy and the Retreat from Institutional Identity Nell Becker Sweeden, George Fox Evangelical Seminary Postdenominationals and Activism: Re-forming Denominations toward Spaces of Collaboration Michael Montgomery, Oak Lawn, IL Value Relational Organizational Strategies as a Test Case for the "Managerial Turn" in Ecclesiology Ulla Schmidt, Centre for Church Research, Oslo, Norway Church Reform, Managerialism and Lutheran Identity 3. A24-219 Ecclesiological Investigations Group and Vatican II Studies Group Theme: The Ecclesiological Turn of Vatican II: Sacramentality, Authority, Culture Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, Presiding Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Convention Center-322 Featuring: Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton The 1963 Draft of Lumen Gentium in the Light of Semmelroth’s Contributions and Commentaries: What Was There and What was Still to Come? Judith Gruber, Loyola University, New Orleans Re-Reading the Council's Ecclesiology after the Cultural Turn Brianne Jacobs, Fordham University That All Might Be Subjects: Hierarchical Authority After Vatican II Richard Gaillardetz, Boston College Vatican II and the Emergence of a Noncompetitive Theology of the Church 4. A24-310 Wildcard Session Theme: Toward a Common Vision of the Church: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Faith and Order’s Groundbreaking Convergence Document Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University, Presiding Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM Hilton Baltimore-Key 4 Featuring: John Gibaut, World Council of Churches The Story of ‘The Church: Towards a Common Vision’ Responding: Laura Everett, Massachusetts Council of Churches, Fr K. M. George, Orthodox Seminary, Kottayam, India Roger Haight, Union Theological Seminary 5. A25-126 Ecclesiological Investigations Group Theme: The Power and Authority of Women in the Church Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, Presiding Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-322 Featuring: Jane Carol Redmont, World Council of Churches African, Feminist, Ecumenical: The Ecclesiology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye Angela Berlis, University of Bern Shared Authority – Leadership of Female Clergy and Female Laity Rebecca B. Young, Jakarta Theology Seminary Shadows of Lumimu’ut: Tracing the Legacy of Women’s Religious Eminence in Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia Susan Shaw, Oregon State University Southern Baptists, Roman Catholics, and the Study of Women in Theological Education Erin Michele Brigham, University of San Francisco Women Religious and the Public Voice of American Catholicism Business Meeting: Mark Chapman, Ripon College Cuddesdon D. Publications: 1. New and recently released titles in the Continuum/Bloomsbury Ecclesiological Investigations Series: • Perpetually Reforming: A Theology of Church Reform and Renewal by John Bradbury • Dumitru Staniloae: An Ecumenical Ecclesiology by Radu Bordeianu (paperback edn.) • Denomination: Assessing an Ecclesiological Category eds. Paul M. Collins and Barry Ensign-George (paperback edn.) • Communion, Diversity, and Salvation: The Contribution of Jean-Marie Tillard to Systematic Ecclesiology by Brian Flanagan (paperback edn.) • John Calvin's Ecclesiology: Ecumenical Perspectives eds. Gerard Mannion and Eduardus Van der Borght (paperback edn.) Other new paperback editions of earlier titles now released and forthcoming, too. 2. Ecclesiology: the Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity – call for submissions As ever, Paul Avis, editor of the peer-reviewed journal Ecclesiology, is always happy to receive scholarly submissions of articles for consideration for publication in the journal. The latest issue is just out – details of contents here. 3. Launch of Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography An initiative of the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Network and published by Brill this new journal – to be officially launched at this year’s AAR - publishes articles and book reviews at the intersection of ethnographic and other qualitative approaches with theological approaches to the study of a variety of ecclesial practices and contexts of practice. Submissions on these and related areas very welcome. 4. Assisi 2012 – Pathways for Dialogue Publications The first volumes featuring papers developed out of the gathering in Assisi last year will be published in 2014. We will be contacting authors with further follow-up details about publication in the coming weeks. The new issue of the Journal for Ecumenical Studies (Summer 2013) features a report on the event. E. Job Opening in Jewish-Christian Dialogue at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium – Graduate Student or Post-Doc KU Leuven’s Peter De Mey has urged interested applicants the still forward their details for this exciting new post (details here) at one of Europe’s most historic universities. The official deadline is listed as October 15th but materials will be accepted until November 1st. The opening is for a (post)doctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project on ‘New Hermeneutics