Ecumenism in Dialogue: Karl Rahner and Dumitru Stăniloae
Ecumenism in Dialogue: Karl Rahner and Dumitru Stăniloae

Summary/Abstract: In a time of rising religious pluralism and multiculturalism, the ecumenical project proposed by the Catholic theologians Karl Rahner and Heinrich Fries, materialized in the joint work Unity of the Churches: An Actual Possibility, reminds today’s Christians that the desire for reconciliation and unity in love and truth is a sacred evangelic ideal. This study sets forth the theses of the most challenging ecumenical project of the 20th century, as well as a critical evaluation of this project from the perspective of the Orthodox theologian Dumitru Stăniloae. Through this study the author wishes to contribute to what the President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, called the shift from “I tolerate” to “I respect,” with reference to the sincere engagement of Christians in their joint endeavor to reach the unifying truth by means of love, at a time when the surge in relativism undermines any identity.

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