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O artigo faz uma abordagem da eclesiologia ecumênica, surgida para refletir a dimensão ecumênica da eclesiologia. O autor aborda o tema em cinco passos: a necessidade de uma eclesiologia ecumênica; o ecumenismo como “princípio formal” da eclesiologia; as fontes e o método da eclesiologia ecumênica; concluindo com a análise do tema “autoridade, dom de Deus à Igreja”, em que é abordada a questão da autoridade, do ministério episcopal como serviço à unidade e o ministério petrino como confirmação da unidade

The current globalized world enables countless benefits for humanity, through technological development, communication, exchange between economies, cultures and creeds, the reduction of distances, among other factors. But there is no real access by all people to the resources of this world, or recognition of the value of otherness. Tensions, conflicts and wars mark the current era of globalization, excluding a large portion of humanity from the right to live with freedom, equality and dignity. This article analyzes how the encyclical Fratelli tutti proposes hospitality, citizenship and fraternity as fundamental to overcoming ambiguities and contradictions in a globalized world. The method is a qualitative analysis of the concepts of hospitality, citizenship and fraternity in Fratelli tutti, in relation to similar studies. The conclusion is that it is only on the horizon of fraternity that the existing contradictions in today's humanity can be overcome. For this, the practice of hospitality and citizenship is urgent, giving all people the right to inhabit this world. Thus, hospitality and citizenship are essential for the globalization of solidarity and the construction of a world of fratelli tutti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to highlight the the importance of the dimensions of decoloniality, plurality and ecumenicity for the process of deepening Latin American theology, in its liberating perspective, considering the development of the critical-liberating potential of religions and spiritualities of the Latin American continent. Using the method of qualitative analysis of the bibliography related to such themes, the study starts from a presentation of the categories of coloniality, plurality and ecumenicity, and then makes a descriptive and summary approach to religious diversity in Latin America and its relationship with sociocultural issues on the continente, with an analysis of the Latin American religious issue in the current context of globalization. Then, from a hermeneutic perspective, it explores the possibilities of a Latin American theology that is decolonial, pluralistic and ecumenical. The research concludes that decoloniality, plurality and ecumenicity are fundamental for the affirmation of the sociocultural and religious identity of Latin American peoples, re-signifying the contents of their faiths and beliefs and making their contextual specificities explicit. This empowers religions on the continent for actions that build social justice, the promotion of human life and the defense of creation and opens new challenges for Latin American theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La teología se caracteriza como un conocimiento de la fe contextualizado en los espacios y tiempos en que viven las comunidades de fe, con el propósito de justificar la fe de las comunidades y orientar su experiencia en la interacción con las características socioculturales de cada época. De esta forma, la episteme teológica sigue los cambios que se dan en los tiempos y en los contextos de la comunidad de fe, y estos cambios inciden siempre en la hermenéutica y en las experiencias de fe. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el momento actual, que por el fin de una era, la modernidad, y la configuración de una nueva, por muchos denominada posmodernidad, cuyas características inciden directamente en la estructura epistémica de la fe cristiana. El método es el análisis cualitativo de la bibliografía, que muestra cómo en el contexto de la posmodernidad no solo se afirma la verdad, sino también el cuestionamiento de si alguna verdad es posible; incluso hay quienes concluyen un vínculo intrínseco entre "posmodernidad" y "posverdad", que señalaría también el hoy como una época de "posreligión". Se concluye que la teología, como narradora de la verdad de la fe, necesita confrontar tales tendencias, buscando recoger su contribución al conocimiento de la fe cristiana. De ahí surgen demandas de cambios en la estructura epistémica de la fe; la sustitución del objeto de la teología; la sensibilidad a nuevas expresiones de apertura a lo trascendente; y nuevas orientaciones que dan nuevo sentido a los temas permanentes de la fe cristiana. De esta manera, la posmodernidad ofrece nuevas posibilidades para la teología de hoy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Affirming the sacraments as symbols of communion raises the question of how to enable this communion to take place between churches that currently celebrate their sacraments separately. Sacramental communion is an ecumenical question. Is it possible for a consensus on the doctrine and celebration of the sacraments to enable churches to recognize each other sacramentally? The purpose of this article is to answer this question by presenting the convergences and consensus that the ecumenical dialogue on the sacraments allows us to reap. The method we use is the qualitative analysis of the bibliography that presents the sacramental theology in an ecumenical perspective. And the results achieved show that a mutual sacramental acceptance requires from the churches a structural reception, in their doctrines and liturgies, of the convergences already reached in the dialogue about the sacraments. As a consequence, they also need a joint effort to re-signify rites, gestures and symbols, as well as remaking the semantic universe of semantic universe of sacramental terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The changing and plural religious scenario of our time implies in Christian theology, particularly that produced in universities, spaces that are catalysts for world issues, with religion being one of the most relevant. The objective of this article is to verify how the academic theology, especially that produced in the university, expresses this current characteristic: plurality. The method is the qualitative analysis of studies that value plurality in faith and in Christian theology. The hypothesis is that ecumenical and interreligious perspectives are fundamental for a plural theology today. And this requires a review both in the formal and epistemologia aspect of theology, as well as in its content. The conclusion is that theology needs to be constructed as plural knowledge, not only because it dialogues with cultures, sciences and different ways of believing, but also because it is itself plural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The magisterium of Pope Francis resumes ecclesial and pastoral processes that make possible the conciliar aggiornamento of the Catholic Church in its modus essendi et operandi. It expresses a Church "on the way out" of rigid and inflexible schemes and structures, moved by the dynamism and "joy of the Gospel" that makes it missionary. This Church reconfigures internal dynamics in the spirit of collegiality and synodality, making clergy and laity, men and women co-responsible for the mission; and it shows itself as a partner of society, dialoguing about its problems and collaborating on solutions. This study analyzes the reception of the teaching of Pope Francis in the Catholic Church in Brazil. It identifies illuminating principles of this pontificate for the Church today and points out the urgent needs that Brazilian society presents for its mission. The method used is the qualitative analysis of texts by Pope Francis, comparing them to the Brazilian reality. He concludes that the reception of his magisterium takes place amidst a reluctant obedience, especially among the clergy, which ends up in a legal formality, as a kind of silent obedience; and a convinced reception, especially by lay leaders. These postures clash with tacit resistance to Pope Francis. The challenge remains to make an effective impact of his teaching on the structures and pastoral processes of Catholic communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of the present research, bibliographical and documentary, is to analyse how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the live of the churches, focussing on the celebration of the sacrament of Holy Communion/Eucharist, and how Catholic and Lutheran churches have sought to react to the given situation. In the Catholic case, masses are celebrated in the presence of a reduced number of persons and transmitted online. The Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil - IECLB, for its part, has preferred to discourage the celebration of Holy Communion for the time being, which has resulted in a kind of already extended "Eucharistic fasting". Either solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its practical and doctrinal reasons to be in place. Analysing the different attitudes of the two aforementioned churches in relation to Eucharistic celebrations during the pandemic, the article explores new modalities that could be discovered for the celebration of Holy Communion/Eucharist in this context, as well as their respective theological implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecumenical movement is a dynamic reality in constant transformation according to the new times, the new contexts and the new subjects that are integrated in the dialogue about oikoumene, such as cultures and religions. The objective of this study is to investigate how this fact affects the reconfiguration of the semantic universe of the concept "ecumenism" nowdays. It proceeds by analyzing the challenges and contributions that the new cultural and religious actors present to ecumenical dialogue in the continent; and it concludes that significant elements emerge for the elaboration of a Latin American ecumenical theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to analyze the ecclesial pluralism in the Christian world, the tensions and conflicts that exist there, but also the possibilities of meeting in the witnessing of the Gospel. By the qualitative analysis method of the available bibliography identifies, on the one hand, socio-cultural and theological factors of pluralism that are expressions of contradiction in the understanding and experience of the Christian faith. On the other hand, it points to elements that may favor to overrun of divisions. For this it is necessary a resizing of the theological reading of the pluralism of churches seeking to verify the possibilities for a recognition of the legitimate motivations of faith, assume the demands of the dialogue and strengthen the availability to review the presuppositions of the separation of Christians. As a result, it is understood that ecclesial pluralism does not directly imply only the division of the church, but can also express distinct possibilities of faithfulness to the Gospel. Thus, the overcoming of the Christian division is not due to the cancellation of a healthy ecclesial pluralism, but by the interaction between different ecclesial traditions in the testimony of the unity of faith in Christ, "for the world to believe" (Jo 17,21). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines how the Synod for the Amazon - 2019 can promote dialogue with the different religious traditions found in that region. It sees this dialogue as a historical debt owed by the Church, particularly to the religious traditions of indigenous and African-American peoples. The qualitative analysis method of the bibliography relevant to the theme was used to analyze the demands of religious pluralism in the Amazon region, that the Church must respond to through a dialogic engagement. This study proposes ways to re-evaluate the Church's theological thinking and structures, in order to help the synod process strengthen the "culture of meeting" and of "dialogue" with the different ways of believing. It concludes that interfaith dialogue should be part of the method and content of today's mission, as it is essential to the "new pathways for the Church and for an integral ecology". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses Christian Faith hermeneutics and its implications in the history of Christian division and search of reconciliation. The focus is the relationship between Catholic and Lutheran churches in the context of the Reformation's anniversary. It demonstrates the living out of faith as a result of a hermeneutical process of the Gospels where the different traditions emerge and configure distinct ecclesial identities. So, if during five hundred years Catholics and Lutherans diverged on the understanding of the Gospel; Ecumenical hermeneutics that favor overcoming these is urgent. The article takes some aspects of Luther's hermeneutics and relates them to Catholic hermeneutics; demonstrating some methodological elements for Catholic-Lutheran Hermeneutics of Faith, and shows how the joint commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 may motivate communion between Catholics and Lutherans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects about the Reformation of Luther (1517), with the objective to understand the Christian faith catholicity on it. For centuries, in Roman Catholic environments, it is common to affirm the Reformation as a cause and expression of divisions in the Church and that to the Lutheran Church tradition there is no catholicity so as it is recognised in the Church tradition linked to Rome. However, Catholic theologians' studies on Luther and the progress in the ecumencial relations between Catholic and Lutheran believers nowadays converge on the comprehension that Luther did not want to divide the Church and that he did not distance himself totally from the Catholic tradition regarding to the affirmation of Christian faith. Then, the ecumenical dialogue proposes the following challenge: may Catholic and Lutheran Christians celebrate the 500 years of the Reformation together? Relating the Catholic-Lutheran international dialogue document, From Conflict to Communion, to recent studies on Luther we conclude that this joint celebration is only going to be possible if both Church traditions are put on a common catholicity horizon. The basis is the acknowledgement of common Faith elements between them. The celebration sounds penitential due to what it may signify as lack of communion; and it sounds as hope in virtue of the elements that the Reformation shows to the communion growth between the two Church traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Christianity, the term "reform" is commonly used to identify the movement of change in the church started by Martin Luther in the sixteenth century, and the churches that emerged from that movement. However, this concept also designates other realities since the aspiration for reforms in church is present throughout its history. In ecclesiology, the term "reform" indicates the different initiatives for change that focus in doctrine, structures, spiritualities and pastoral projects of the church. It does not indicate ruptures with an ecclesial institution, but its renewal, a tension between continuity and discontinuity in the relationship between essendi modus and operandi modus of the church in every age. In this way, Vatican II should be taken as a council of reform as well as the current moment of the pontificate of Pope Francisco. This paper aims to analyze the possibilities for reform in the Catholic Church, tracing bonds linking between the reformist proposals of the sixteenth century reformers, Vatican II and the current pontificate of Pope Francisco. Thus, the semantic universe of the term "reform" gets here an ecumenical sense, indicating the necessary changes in the different churches in order to promote Christian unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an approach to ecumenical ecclesiology, which appeared to reflect the ecumenical dimension of Ecclesiology. The author approaches the subject in five steps: the need for an ecumenical ecclesiology, ecumenism as "formal principle" of ecclesiology and the sources and methods of ecumenical ecclesiology. He concludes with the study of "authority, God's gift to the Church", where the question of authority, the Episcopal ministry as service to the unit and the Petrine ministry as confirmation of the unit, are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]