A Service of Love

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CUA Press, 2013 M06 24 - 100 pages
In this short and penetrating study, Paul McPartlan, a member of the international Roman Catholic-Orthodox theological dialogue, presents a proposal, carefully argued both historically and theologically, for a primacy exercising a service of love in a reconciled church, West and East.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Primacy Collegiality and Eucharist
15
2 The Second Millennium
29
3 The First Millennium and the Future
53
4 Conclusion
85
Ecumenical Councils
89
Bibliography
91
Index
97
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About the author (2013)

Paul McPartlan is Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the International Theological Commission and the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. A contributor to the recently published Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles, and Criteria by the International Theological Commission, McPartlan also is the author of The Eucharist Makes the Church: Henri de Lubac and John Zizioulas in Dialogue and Sacrament of Salvation: An Introduction to Eucharistic Ecclesiology.

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