Реферат: Catholic
& Orthodox Dialogue Essay, Research Paper
THE SYNODAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION
STUDIES ISSUES RELATED TO THE DIALOGUE
BETWEEN THE ORTHODOX AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
The commentary on the documents of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue
On April 18, 1997 the Synodal Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church
under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk had a meeting
at the Department for External Church Relations to study the document of the VII
Plenary session of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue
Between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches on “Uniatism, Method of Union
of the Past and the Present Search for Full Communion”, which was adopted in
Balamand, Lebanon, in June 1993. This document gave rise to a dispute at the
All-Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church last February which resulted in
the decision of the Council “to transfer the document to Synodal Theological
Commission for study and to have the Holy Synod work out an official position on
it”.
In this connection, the Theological Commission found it essential to give some
information on the background of the Balamand document.
The theological dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches goes
back to early 1960’s following Vatican II and Pan-Orthodox Conferences on Rhodes.
As early as 1961, the First Pan-Orthodox Conference, among other topics for the
forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council, chose the following :
“V. Relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian world.(…)
C. Orthodoxy and the Roman Catholic Church. a)Study of Positive and Negative
moments in the relations between the two Churches: 1) on the faith; 2)on the
government; 3) on the activity of the church (especially, propaganda, proselytism,
Unia) b) Establishment of relation in the spirit of Christian love, as envisaged in
Patriarchal encyclical of 1920 ” (JMP No.11, 1961)
The second Pan-Orthodox Conference in 1963 “unanimously agreed that our
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