This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives. The volume contributors offer answers to questions such as: What needs to be changed in the universal church and in the particular denominations? How has change influenced the life of the church? What are the dangers that change brings with it? What awaits the church if it refuses to change? Many of the essays focus on people who have changed the church significantly and on events that have catalyzed change, for the better or for the worse. Some also present visions of change for particular Christian denominations, whether over the ordination of the women, different approaches to sexuality, reform of the magisterium, and many other issues related to change.

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Mark D. Chapman is Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK, and Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon. He is a Church of England priest and Canon of Truro Cathedral.

Vladimir Latinovic is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Tübingen, and project manager at the Academy DRS in Stuttgart. He serves as director and vice-chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Vladimir Latinovic and Mark Chapman Part I: History and Theology

2. From Rigor to Reconciliation: Cyprian of Carthage on Changing Penitential Practice David G. Hunter

3. Who do You Call a Heretic? Fluid Notions of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Late Antiquity
   Vladimir Latinovic

4. Towards a Theology of Dissent
   Judith Gruber

5. Theology of Church Reform and Institutional Crisis: Reading Yves Congar in the Twenty-first Century
   Massimo Faggioli

Part II: Society and Gender
6. Sisterhood of the Earth: An Emergence of an Ecological Civilization and an Ecozoic Era
Elaine Padilla

7. Developing a Virtue of Eating Well: Laudato Sí and Animal Economies
   Matthew Eaton

8. Noli Me Tángere: A Church for the Oppressed Putting the Abused and Vulnerable at the Forefront of Ecclesial Activity and Change Cristina Lledo Gomez

9. The Essence of Faith: Prayer as Ritual and Struggle
   Mary McClintock Fulkerson

10. The Holy Spirit Makes the Church: Changing the Church as a Responsive Act
    Scott MacDougall

11. Making the Spiritual World Accessible: Paul VI and Modern Art at the Close of Vatican II Susie Paulik Babka

12. Women Changing the Church: The Experience of the Council for Australian Catholic Women 2000-2019
    Patricia Madigan OP

13. The Unity of the Church and Birth Control in an Age of Polarization
    Dennis M. Doyle
    Part III: Mission and World Christianity

14. The World Mission of the Christian Church
    Roger Haight, S.J.

15. Conversion and Change Through the Processes of Mission and Christianization
    Paul M. Collins

16. Mission as Reception: Reframing Evangelism in the Church of England
    Martyn Percy

17. The Refugee Crisis as an Opportunity for Missionary and Pastoral Conversion
    Gioacchino Campese

18. Blessed Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church
    Darren J. Dias

19. Changing the Church: An African Theological Reflection
    Stan Chu Ilo

20. The Revolutionary Power of the Church
    Debora Tonelli

21. The Implications of Transient Migration and Online Communities for Changing the Church in Asia

Jonathan Y. Tan

Part IV: Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue

22. Liturgical Renewal and Ecumenical Progress
    John Borelli

23. Changing the Catholic Church's Interreligious Relationships: Irish American Pioneers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
    Leo D. Lefebure

24. Is Interreligious dialogue changing the Church? The Significance of the Document on Human Fraternity
    Roberto Catalano

25. That's Gonna Leave a Mark: A Saint, a Sultan, an...