LEST VI - Programme of the Conference
Wed 7 November
Believing in Community: Ecclesiological Reflections on the Church
9.00 Plenary Session I: Ecclesial Community in the Age of Individualisation, What Is It Needed For? On Developing a Theology of Belonging
David Chapman (Co-secretary of the British Catholic-Methodist dialogue)
Social Holiness, Antidote to Solitary Religion: Recovering a Theology of Church as Community
Bradford Hinze (Fordham University)
Individuation, Communication, Communion: Implications for the Church’s Identity and Mission
11.30 Plenary Session II: What Instances of Authority Are There in the Church? How Do They Relate to One Another? How Does Theological Reflection on This Issue Relate to the Concrete Institutional Reality?
Ioan Sauca (Bossey Ecumenical Institute)
The Authority to Serve in a Community of Love
Myriam Wijlens (University of Erfurt)
Authority-Sensus fidelium: Protecting and Promoting the Ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council with the Assistance of Institutions?
14.30 Plenary Session III: How Much Unity and Structures Do We Need in Our Churches at a Global Level?
Wolfgang Thönissen (Johann Adam Möhler Institute, Paderborn)
Unity of the Church and the Communion of Churches. How Much Communion and Structures Do We Need in our Church at a Global Level?
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena)
Unity, Diversity, and Apostolicity: Are There Any Hopes for Rapprochement between Older and Younger Churches?
9.00 Plenary Session IV: How Much Unity and Structures Do We Need in Our Churches at a Local Level? What Are the Concrete Challenges Threatening the Unity of the Community?
William Cavanaugh (University of St. Thomas)
A Penitential Account of Local Practices and Church Unity
S. Wesley Ariarajah (Drew University, Madison, NJ)
Christian Community within the Human Community: On Being the Church in Asia
11.30 Plenary Session V: Ecclesial Communions, Their Identity and Openness Toward Others. How are the Theological Identities built? What Is the Role of the Sacraments Within These Identities? How Can the Communities Hold on to Sacraments While Remaining Open Toward Other Communities?
André Birmelé (Université Marc Bloch)
L’Eglise un sacrament? Approche protestante
Susan K. Wood (Marquette University)
The Sacramental Foundations of Ecclesial Identity: Barrier or Passageway to Ecumenical Unity?
9.00 Closing lecture: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali (the Bishop of Rochester, UK)
Believing, Belonging and Behaving: Church and Community in a Post-Modern World
Believing, Belonging and Behaving: Church and Community in a Post-Modern World
12 Closing Service
13 Closing Banquette
