Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

law.^251 This kind of approval does not, however, aim to reconcile differences or create a framework of toleration. Sometimes ca ...

These noteworthy statements extend the traditional idea ofagnitio veritatisto other religions and even to all human beings. Whil ...

TheDecree on Ecumenismemploysagnoscoseven times, often in important passages. Regarding non-Catholics, it states that‘all who ha ...

institutions is given. It can be argued, however, that a full equality between Catholic and non-Catholic Christians is affirmed ...

radically. At the same time, theirrecognitio aims to refresh the memory of the faithful, rediscovering the deeper understanding ...

Bultmann, Barth, and Vatican II. For instance, Jürgen Werbick dis- cusses‘the truth of recognition’in twenty pages in his Cathol ...

and churches. The Edinburgh 1937 Faith and Order preparatory report‘Meanings of Unity’makes this idea explicit: To speak of‘mutu ...

unity.^274 The approach employing the legal concept of recognition did not provide any lasting results. The so-called Toronto De ...

Generally speaking, trends can be observed during the 1950s that seek to strengthen a distinctly theological concept of recognit ...

Neither side needs to give up its identity in performing the act of recognition. Fries stresses the difference between recognizi ...

The debate concerning the recognition of the Augsburg Confession is one of the large issues of German theology between 1975 and ...

interpersonal act; therefore, the recognition of a text needs to be accompanied by directly interpersonal acts. This also means ...

and Ratzinger in thinking that the act of recognition must be essen- tially spiritual and ecclesial.^294 Harding Meyer, who pres ...

full communion among its member churches through a declaration in which the theological paragraph starts with‘we acknowledge’: ( ...

recognize one another as churches, they can still be members of the World Council because they both recognize a third party (C), ...

out the possibility of older instances of mediated religious recogni- tion. Our selection of texts has necessarily been limited ...

4 Recognition in Religion A Systematic Outline 4.1. The Emergence of Historical Paradigms At this point, we need to stop and ask ...

The evidence gathered in Chapters 2 and 3 shows how this procedure leads to a differentiated collection of historical examples. ...

instance,‘afavour’. A special case is the event of self-recognition, in which A recognizes himself or herself. I have also allow ...

the‘lord’or the‘established power’grants recognition to new aspirants so that the event may be labelled as a downward one. In th ...