Receptive Ecumenism and Ecclesial Learning: Learning to Be Church Together

Receptive Ecumenism and Ecclesial Learning: Learning to Be Church Together
Joint 2nd International Receptive Ecumenism Conference &
3rd Annual Gathering of the Ecclesiological Investigations Network

Organised and hosted by
The Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology & Religion, pDurham University, UK
& St Cuthbert’s Seminary, Ushaw College, Durham
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Ushaw College, Durham, 11th-15th January 2009

Programme

Sunday 11th January 2009

4.00pm Formal Opening & Liturgy
Rev. John Marsland, President of Ushaw College; Dr Paul D. Murray, Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University; Rev. Dr Paul Collins, Secretary to the Ecclesiological Investigations Research Network; Rev. Dr David Cornick, General Secretary of Churches Together in England & former General Secretary of the United Reformed Church, UK; Mgr Mark Langham, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City

4.15pm Liturgy/worship
Rev. Rowena Francis, Moderator of the Northern Synod of the United Reformed Church; Rev. John Claydon, Regional Minister (Pastoral) for the Northern Baptist Association & Moderator of North East Christian Churches Together; Rt. Rev. Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham; Rev. Ruth Gee, Chair of the Darlington District of the Methodist Church; Rev. Leo Osborn, Chair of the Newcastle upon Tyne District of the Methodist Church; Canon Seamus Cunningham, Bishop-designate, Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle.

4.40pm Opening Address
Spirituality of Unity and Receptive Ecumenism
Rev. Dr C. Callan Slipper, Ealing Focolare Community and Focolare International Study Group: The Spirituality of Unity and Receptive Ecumenism

7.00pm Session 1:
Receptive Ecumenism and Ecclesial Learning: Opening Thoughts and Agenda in View
Mgr. Donald Bolen, Nash Chair of Religion, Campion College, University of Regina, Canada & former staff member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City State Reconciling Paths

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Rev. Dr John Gibaut, Director of the Faith and Order Commission, WCC, Geneva, Switzerland & Faculty of Theology, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada: Receptive Ecumenism: A Faith and Order Perspective

8.30pm Small Groups
Introductions, Initial Thoughts & Hopes & Night Prayer
Small group sessions and associated processes, directed by Dr Nicholas Adams, Academic Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK in consultation with morning reflector, Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, Assistant Professor (Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

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Monday 12
7.30am Morning Prayer
Jn 17:20-24 Keynote Reflection: Jn 17:20-24, ‘Spiritual-not-spiritualized-Ecumenism
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Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, Assistant Professor (Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

9.00am Session 2
Scripture and Receptive Ecumenism
Rt Rev. Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham: ‘Scriptural Reasoning and Receptive Ecumenism’

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Prof. David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity & Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK: ‘Scriptural Reasoning in Practice’

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Prof. Peter W. Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia, USA

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2.15pm Parallel Short Papers Session 1

Chair: Dr William G. Rusch
Prof. Peter De Mey: ‘Slowly but Surely? The Best Way to Reach Ecumenical Progress according to the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity’
Mr Pieter De Witte: ‘What Learning from the ‘Annoying Other’. The Roman Catholic Critics of the Joint
Declaration on the Doctrine of Justificatioin‘
Dr Annemarie Mayer: ‘Receptive Ecumenism and the Common Gift of Baptism: An Investigation along Ecclesiological Lines’

Chair: Dr Marcus Pound
Rev. Dr David Pascoe: ‘Hospitality Grounded in Humility: A Foundation for Inter-Ecclesial Learning’
Dr. Timothy Watson & Mrs Kate Watson: ‘Chemin Neuf and the Practical Challenges of Receptive Ecumenism’
Dr Nicholas Adams: ‘The Reasoning of Scriptural Reasoning’

Chair: Prof. Neil Ormerod
Dr. Catherine E. Clifford: Lonergan, The Development of Doctrine and the Reception of Ecumenical Consensus‘
Dr David M. Thompson: ‘Ecumenical Dialogue and the Development of Doctrine’
Prof. Susan A. Ross: ‘Women’s Ordination as both a Unitive and Divisive Factor in Ecumenical Relations’

Chair: Sr Janette Gray
Rev. Dr Denis Edwards: ‘The Action of the Spirit in Receptive Ecumenism’
Dr Connie Ho Yan Au: ‘The Complementarity Between Christology and Pneumatology in Ecumenism’
Rev. Dr Gerard Kelly: ‘Recognition and Reception: A Comparison of Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (1982) and Called to Be the One Church (2006)‘

Chair: Rev. Dr Kenneth Wilson
Br Jeffrey Gros, FSC: ‘‘Inculturating Receptive Ecumenism’
Dr Kirsteen Kim: ‘Inter-cultural Ecumenism: Rethinking Ecclesiology in Global Conversation’
Prof. Solange Lefebvre: ‘Dialog in a New Program of Ethics and Religious Culture in some Canadian Public Schools’

Chair: Dr Bernhard Nausner
Rev. Neil Cockling: ‘John Wesley’s Contribution to Dialogue and its Contemporary Relevance’
Rev. Dr Peter Phillips: ‘“Who Shall Say How Bread and Wine God into Man Conveys?” Re-receiving Catholic Eucharistic Theology from the Hymns of John and Charles Wesley’

Chair: Dr Janet Soskice
Rev. John O’Brien, CSSP: Two-eyed Vision: A Sufi Perspective on the Both/And Structure of receptive Ecumenism’
Rev. Mark Woodruff: ‘Paul Couturier and the Re-imagining of Catholic Approaches to the Other’

Chair: Dr Christopher Insole
Rev. Dr Paul M. Collins: ‘“Remember that You Are Catholic” (Augustine of Hippo, serm. 52.2): Questioning the Paradigmatic Use of Terms in Ecumenical Exchange’
Prof. Leo J. Koffeman: Church Law as an Ecumenical Discipline
Mr Nicholas Peter Harvey: ‘Unreal Worlds Meeting: The Failure of Ecumenism’

Chair: Dr Paul D. Murray
Prof. Dennis Doyle: ‘Ecclesiological Relativism as an Ecumenical Category’
Prof. Paul Lakeland: ‘What Does Rome Have to Learn from Geneva? Whole-Body Ecclesiology and the Inductive Turn’
Prof. Nicholas M. Healy: ‘An Ecclesiology for Receptive Ecumenism?’

End of parallel papers

5.00pm Eucharist
Catholic Presidency (Rt. Rev. Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, UK) with Prof. John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK to preach: Sermon at Receptive Ecumenism Conference, January 2009

7.30pm Session 3
Receptive Ecumenism and the Sensus Fidelium: Expanding the Categories for Catholic Ecclesial Discerning
Rev. Dr Ormond Rush, St Paul’s Theological College, Banyo, Australia
‘Developing Catholic Understanding and Practice of Ordained Ministry through Receptive Learning’
Rev. Prof. Richard Lennan, Professor of Systematic Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Boston, USA

Tuesday 13th January

7.30am Morning Prayer
Keynote Reflection: Phil 2: 1-9 ‘Kenosis and the Church’
Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, Assistant Professor (Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

9.00am Session 4
Receptive Ecumenism and the Dynamics of Development within Lutheranism
Rev. Dr William G. Rusch, Yale Divinity School, USA
‘Receptive Ecumenism and the Dynamics of Development within Pentecostalism’
Prof. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA & University of Helsinki, Finland

11.00am Session 5
What Prevents Christian Churches from Learning?
Rev. Prof. Jeff Astley, Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education, Durham, UK: What prevents christian churches from learning?

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Prof. Bradford E. Hinze, Professor of Theology, Fordham University, New York, USA: Ecclesial Impasse: What Can We Learn from Our Laments?

12.30pm Eucharist
Anglican Presidency (Rt Rev. Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham) with Rev. Tom Bruch, General Secretary of the Lutheran Council of Great Britain, UK, to preach: Tom Bruch Sermon

7.30pm Session 6
Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Anglicanism
Most Rev. Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, to be presented in absentia by Rev. Canon Jonathan Goodall, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Chaplain and Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs: ‘Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Anglicanism’
Rev. Prof. Paul Fiddes, Professorial Research Fellow, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK: fiddes-unity-and-universality_website-309

Wednesday 14th January

7.30am Morning Prayer
Keynote Reflection: Jn 14:25-31 ‘The Learning Church’‘The Learning Church’
Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, Assistant Professor (Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

9.00am Session 7
Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Ecumenical Patriarchate & Emeritus Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies, University of Oxford: ‘Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Othrodoxy’
Sr Prof. Susan K. Wood, SCL, Department of Theology, Marquette University, USA: ‘Unity and Universality, Locality and Diversity in Catholicism’

11.00am Session 8
Receptive Ecumenism and the Local Church: The Anatomy of a Project
Dr Paul D. Murray, Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University;
Dr Marcus Pound, Assistant Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University;
Prof. Geoff Moore, Professor of Business Ethics, Durham Business School;
Rev. Prof. Jeff Astley, Honorary Professor of Christian Education, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University & Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education Report-on-learning-and-formation-trajectory-research;
Prof. Tom Redman, Professor of Human Resource Management, Durham Business School

2.00pm Parallel short papers session 2

Chair: Prof. Nicholas M. Healy
Rev. Canon Dr Stephen Cherry: ‘Learning from Transylvania’
Prof. Henk P. de Roest: ‘Crossing the Dutch-German Border: Ecclesial Learning through Parish-Encounters’

Chair: Rev. Dr Peter Phillips
Dr Fáinche Ryan: ‘What Does the Church See Itself Doing When It Makes the Eucharist?’
Prof. Geoff Moore: ‘The Institutionalisation of the Practice of Faith: Churches as Organisations’

Chair: Dr Mathew Guest
Dr Pete Ward: ‘Mediation, Receptive Ecumenism and the Liquid Church’
Prof. John Sullivan:‘Education and Evangelisation’

Chair: Dr Helen Cameron
Ms Jenny Bond: ‘Ecumenism, ‘BIG’ and ‘small’ – Working Together’
Dr Clare Watkins: ‘Living Church: Practical Theology as a Locus for Ecumenical Learning’

Chair: Rev. Dr Gerard Kelly
Sr Janette Gray: ‘Herd or Hearth: “Receptive Ecumenism” in Models of two Australian Catholic Church Communities’‘
Rev. Dr Kevin T. Kelly: ‘An Ecumenical Case-study: 25 years as a Shared RC/Anglican Church: The story of St Basil & All Saints, Widnes’

Chair: Rev. Prof. Jeff Astley
Rev. John Claydon: ‘Independence and Interdependence in Tension: Baptist Reflection on Others’ Ecclesiological Realities’
Dr Wendy Dackson: ‘Our Own “Others”: The Nature, Purpose and Futures of Anglican Dioceses’

Chair: Rev. Dr Denis Edwards
Rev. Dominic Robinson: ‘Pope Benedict’s teaching on Christian love in Deus Caritas Est against the background of Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue’
Rev. Dr. Donald W. Norwood: ‘Calvinas Catholicus and Barth Catholic-Evangelical’

Chair: Dr Ruth Reardon
Prof. Bernard P. Prusak: ‘Receptive Ecumenism from Below – Heeding the Voice of Interchurch Families’
Mr Ray Temmerman: ‘Toward a Language of Faithful Possibilities: A Workshop in eceptive Ecumenism and the Inter-church Families’

Chair: Dr Gerard Mannion
Prof. Neil Ormerod: ‘Catholic Learning from Pentecostalism: Engaging the New Kid on the Block’
Rev. Professor Alan P. F. Sell: ‘Receiving from Other Christian Traditions and Overcoming Hindrances Thereto: Some Reformed Reflections’

End of parallel papers

3.50pm Session 9
Final Plenary
Rt. Rev. Joe Aldred, Bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy, Chair of the Council of Black Led Churches & Secretary of Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs (MECA) for Churches Together in England;
Ms Jenny Bond, Field Officer for the North and Midlands, Churches Together in England: Receptive ecumenism conference 2009 – final session
Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, Margaret and Thomas Murray and James J. Bacik Endowed Chair Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA;
Dr Tamara Grzdelidze, Faith and Order Commission, WCC, Geneva, Switzerland: Observations on Ecumenism
Rev. Prof. James Haire, Executive Director & Professor of Theology, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Stuart University, Canberra, Australia & the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council: receptive-ecumenism-and-ecclesial-learning-durham-14-january-2009
Dr Janet Soskice, University Reader in Philosophical Theology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK.Soskice -receptive-eum-_2_

5.45pm Methodist Covenant Service/Eucharist presided over by Rev. Dr Roger Walton, Director of the Wesley Study Centre, Durham, with Rev. Elizabeth Welch, former Moderator, West Midlands Synod of the URC, Birmingham, UK, to preach: Methodist Covenant service

After-dinner speeches:
Rev. John Marsland, President of Ushaw College
Rt. Rev. Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, UK

Final word:
Prof. Chris Higgins, Vice Chancellor, Durham University, UK
Blessing:
Rt. Rev. Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, UK

End

Participants List:
Rev John Marsland, President of Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Dr Paul D. Murray, Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
Dr Marcus Pound, Assistant Director of the Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Philip Gillespie, Vice-President, Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Mr Timothy Harrison, Director of Music, Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, Assistant Professor (Systematic Theology), Faculty of Theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
Archie Cameron, Agape Ministries, Southport, Merseyside, UK
Cathy Cameron, Agape Ministries, Southport, Merseyside, UK
Rev. Chris Fallon, Archdiocese of Liverpool & research student within the Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Michael Fitzsimons, Archdiocese of Liverpool & research student within the Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Chris Hughes, Pasoral Director, Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Sr Dr Patricia McDonald, SHCJ, Director of Studies & Lecturer in New Testament, Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Mr John Moriarty, Diocese of Lancaster, student
Rev. Dr Michael Sharratt, Lecturer in Philosophy, Ushaw College, Durham, UK
Rev. Ruth Gee, Chair of the Darlington District of the Methodist Church, UK
Prof. Seth Kunin, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Dean of Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Durham University, UK
Rev. Leo Osborn, Chair of the Newcastle upon Tyne District of the Methodist Church, UK:
Prof. Loren Stuckenbruck, Head of Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Prof. Chris Higgins, Vice Chancellor, Durham University, UK
Br Brendan Geary, Ushaw College, Director of Human Development
Dr Nicholas Adams, Academic Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK
The Revd Will Adam, Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
Rt. Rev. Joe Aldred, Bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy, Chair of the Council of Black Led Churches & Secretary of Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs (MECA) for Churches Together in England
H. G. Bishop Angaelos, Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church, UK & Chairman of the Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox committee of Churches in the UK
Ms Sandra Arenas, research student, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Very Rev. Dr John Arnold, OSB, former Dean of Durham Cathedral and former President of the Council of European Churches
Rev. Prof. Jeff Astley, Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education, Durham, UK
Mr Luca Badini-Confalonieri, Research Fellow, Lonergan Institute, Boston College, USA & PhD student, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Dr Krastu Banev, Lecturer in Greek Patristics, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Stephanita Barbu, research student, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham University, UK
Laura Baker, undergraduate student, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Colin Battell, OSB, Prior of Ampleforth Abbey, UK
Mgr. Donald Bolen, Nash Chair of Religion, Campion College, University of Regina, Canada & former staff member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City State
Mr John Bolger, Coordinating Editor, One in Christ, Monastery of Christ Our Saviour, Turvey, UK
Ms Jenny Bond, Field Officer for the North and Midlands, Churches Together in England
Rev. John R. Bradley, Field Officer (South), Secretary of Churches Group for Local Unity, Churches Together in England
Deacon Martin Browne, OSB, Glenstal Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland & St. John’s College, Durham University
Rev. Tom Bruch, General Secretary of the Lutheran Council of Great Britain, UK
Dr Jocelyn Bryan, Tutor Responsible for Foundation and Lay Training, Wesley Study Centre, St John’s College, Durham, UK
Rev. Canon Richard Bryant, Director of the Local Ordained Ministry and Reader Training Schemes for the Diocese of Newcastle, UK
Major Jim Bryden, National Ecumenical Officer for the Salvation Army, UK Territory
Sr Teresa Burke, Archdiocese of Birmingham Ecumenical Commission, UK
Dr Helen Cameron, Director of the Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical Theology, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, UK
Rt Rev. Michael Campbell, OSA, Coadjutor Bishop of Lancaster, UK
Rev. Colin Carr, OP, Theological Advisor to the North East Christian Churches, UK
Mr David Carter, British Methodist-Roman Catholic Committee, Bristol, UK
Rev. Dr James Cassidy, Diocese of Northampton, Ecumenical Commission, UK Rev.
Dr David Chapman, Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council & Methodist Co-Secretary to the British Methodist-Roman Catholic Committee, UK
Mr William Chapman, Director of Policy, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, London, UK
Rev. Canon Dr Stephen Cherry, Director of Ministry, Council for Ministry, Diocese of Durham, UK
Ms Julie Clague, Lecturer in Catholic Theology, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Rev. John Claydon, Regional Minister (Pastoral) for the Northern Baptist Association & Moderator of North East Christian Churches Together, UK
Rev. Neil Cockling, Ecumenical Officer for the Newcastle District of the Methodist Church, UK
Rev. Dr Paul M. Collins, Reader in Theology, University of Chichester, UK
Dr Martin Conway, Convenor, the Society for Ecumenical Studies, UK
Rev. David Cornick, General Secretary of Churches Together in England & former General Secretary of the United Reformed Church, UK
Canon Seamus Cunningham, Bishop-designate, Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle, UK
Rev. Anthony Currer, Catholic Chaplain to Durham University, UK
Dr Wendy Dackson, Director of Studies for the Local Ministry Training Scheme for the Diocese of Canterbury, UK
Lady Kate Davson, International President, International Ecumenical Fellowship, Rye, UK
Prof. Peter De Mey, Director of the Centre for Ecumenical Research, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Henk P. de Roest, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Mr Pieter De Witte, research student, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dennis Doyle, Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
Rt. Rev. Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, UK
Rev. John Durell, Clerk and Ecumenical Officer to the URC Northern Synod, UK
Rev. Canon Anne Dyer, Warden of Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham, UK
Rev. Dr Denis Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, School of Theology, Flinders University & Adelaide College of Divinity, Australia
Rt. Rev. Michael C. Evans, Bishop of East Anglia, UK
Rev. Prof. Paul Fiddes, Professorial Research Fellow, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK
Rev. Dr Gabriel Flynn, Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Head of the School of Theology, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
Prof. David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity & Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK
Rev. Rowena Francis, Moderator of the Northern Synod of the United Reformed Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, Margaret and Thomas Murray and James J. Bacik Endowed Chair Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
Rev. Dr John Gibaut, Director of the Faith and Order Commission, WCC, Geneva, Switzerland & Faculty of Theology, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
The Rev. Canon Jonathan Goodall, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Chaplain and Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs, Lambeth Palace, London, UK
Rev. Paul Goodliff, member of the WCC-Pentecostal Dialogue Group & Head of Ministry for the Baptist Union of Great Britain, UK
Sr Janette Gray, Jesuit Theological College, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Rt. Rev. Ambrose Griffiths, OSB, Bishop Emeritus of Hexham & Newcastle, UK
Br Jeffrey Gros, FSC, Distinguished Professor of Ecumenical and Historical Theology, Memphis Theological Seminary & former Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, USA
Dr Tamara Grzdelidze, Faith and Order Commission, WCC, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Mathew Guest, Lecturer in Sociology of Religion, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
Ms Miriam Haar, PhD student, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Rev. Prof. James Haire, Executive Director & Professor of Theology, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Stuart University, Canberra, Australia & the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Worldv Methodist Council
Dr Victoria Harrison, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Dr Margaret Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History (retired), Department of History, Durham University, UK
Mr Nicholas Peter Harvey, English Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee, UK
Rev. Jamie Hawkey, Parish of Portsea, Portsmouth, UK
Prof. Nicholas M. Healy, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, St. John’s University, New York, USA
Prof. Harald Hegstad, Professor of Practical Theology, Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Norway
Rt. Rev. Paul Hendricks, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Southwark, UK
Prof. Bradford E. Hinze, Professor of Theology, Fordham University, New York, USA
Rev. Dr Trevor Hoggard, Minister of the Methodist Church in Rome, Italy
Dr Harold Hunter, Director of the Archives and Research Centre, International Pentecostal Holiness Church, USA
Dr Christopher Insole, Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Jana Jeruma-Grinberga, Bishop Elect, Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Rev. Prof. Peter Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Business Economics, Durham Business School, Durham University, UK
Prof. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA & University of Helsinki, Finland
Rev. Peter Kashouris, Priest-in-Charge, C-of-E Parish of St. Oswald, Durham, UK
Rev. Dr Gerard Kelly, Lecturer in Theology, Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia, member of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Australia, and the Faith and Unity Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia
Rev. Dr Kevin Kelly, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow (Moral Theology), Liverpool Hope University, UK
Rev. Graham R. Kent, Methodist Minister & Ecumenical Development Officer for Greater Manchester Churches Together, UK
Dr Kirsteen Kim, Associate Senior Lecturer in Theology, Leeds Trinity and All Saints, UK
Prof. Leo J. Koffeman, Professor of Church Law and Ecumenism, Protestant Theological University of Leiden, Netherlands
Prof. Paul Lakeland, Aloysius P. Kelley Chair of Catholic Studies, Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA
Rev. David Lamb, Deacon at St Mary de Castro Church, Leicester, UK
Rev. Dr Dermot A. Lane, President, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
Mgr. Mark Langham, formerly Administrator of Westminster Cathedral, staff member designate of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Rome, Italy
Archimandrite Ephrem Lash, Priest of the Greek Orthodox Church of St John the Baptist and St Anthony the Great, Islington & formerly lecturer in Biblical and Patristic Studies, University of Newcastle, UK
Rev. Dr Brendan Leahy, Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland
Ms Jane Leek, Administrator of the Derwent Charitable Consultancy, London, UK
Prof. Solange Lefebvre, Chair of Religion, Culture & Society, Centre d’études des religions, Université de Montréal, Canada
Rev. Prof. Richard Lennan, Professor of Systematic Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Boston, USA
Rev. Rosa Leto, Work-place Chaplain, Methodist District of Darlington, UK
Rt. Rev. Bernard Longley, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, UK
Rev. Prof. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Ms Helene Lund, Research Fellow & doctoral student, Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Norway
Rev. William McFadden, Rector of Scotus College, Glasgow & Member of the British Methodist–Roman Catholic Committee, UK
Dr Gerard Mannion, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Visiting Professor of the University of Chichester & Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network
PD Dr Annemarie Mayer, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Dom John Mayhead, OSB, Superior, Monastery of Christ Our Saviour, Turvey, UK
Mr James Menzies, Ordinand, Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham University, UK
Sr. Mary Michael, CHC, Community of the Holy Cross, Rempstone, UK
Rev. Kris Miller, Vineyard USA & research student within the Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University
Prof. Geoff Moore, Professor of Business Ethics, Durham Business School, Durham University, UK
Rev. Richard Mortimer, National Ecumenical Officer for the United Reformed Church
Mrs Andrea Murray, Ecumenical Officer, Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle
Dr Bernhard Nausner, part-time Teaching Assistant, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University, UK
Rev. Canon Dr Kenneth Noakes, RC Parish of St. Catherine, Wimborne, Dorset & Member of the British Methodist–Roman Catholic Committee, UK
Rev. Dr. Donald W. Norwood, Research Fellow at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland & URC Minister, Oxford
Rev. John O’Brien, CSSP, St. Michaels, Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan
Prof. Peter W. Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia, USA
Prof. Neil Ormerod, Professor of Theology & Director of the Institute of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia
Rev. Dr David Pascoe, President of St Paul’s Theological College, Brisbane & President of the Brisbane College of Theology, Queensland, Australia
Rev. Roger Paul, National Ecumenical Officer for the Church of England
Rev. Prof. Keith F. Pecklers S.J., Professor of Liturgy, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
Rev. Dr David Peel, Education and Training Officer for the URC Northern Synod, UK
Ms Catherine Pepinster, Editor of The Tablet
Rev. Canon Dr Alvyn Pettersen, Canon Theologian of Worcester Cathedral, UK, English
Anglican–Roman Catholic Committee & the British Methodist–Roman Catholic Committee
Rev. Dr Peter Phillips, Diocese of Shrewsbury & Member of the British Methodist-Roman Catholic Committee, UK
Prof. Bernard P. Prusak, Chair of Department of Theology & Religious Studies, Villanova University, USA
Rt. Rev. John Rawsthorne, Bishop of Hallam, UK
Dr Ruth Reardon, Life President, Association of Interchurch Families, Bedford, UK
Mary Reath, Governor of the Anglican Centre in Rome and member of the Anglican Roman Catholic Dialogue in the US (ARCUSA), Princeton, New Jersey
Prof. Tom Redman, Professor of Human Resource Management, Durham Business School, Durham University, UK
Very Rev. David Richardson, Director of the Anglican Centre, Rome, Italy
Rt. Rev. Dr Paul Richardson, Assistant Bishop of Newcastle, UK
Rev. Dominic Robinson, SJ, Course Director for the Living Theology summer schools and Lecturer-designate in Systematic Theology, Heythrop College, University of London
Prof. Susan A. Ross, Chair of Faculty of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
Rev. Dr William G. Rusch, Yale Divinity School, USA
Rev. Dr Ormond Rush, St Paul’s Theological College, Banyo, Australia
Dr Fáinche Ryan, Director of Studies, Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge, UK
Rev. Gordon Ryan, Chair of the Ecumenical Commission for the Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle, UK
Rev. Tom Ryan, CSP, Paulist Ecumenical & Interfaith Relations Office, Washington DC & Secretary of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, USA
Rev Prof. Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian, Westminster Abbey, UK
Rev. John Salter, Patriarchal Vicar for Ecumenical Relations for the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and Chairman of the Pontifical Society of St John Chrysostom
Rev. Lindsey Sanderson, Assistant General Secretary, Action of Churches Together in Scotland
Rev. Dr Helen Savage, North Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Rev. Professor Alan P. F. Sell, formerly Professor of Christian Doctrine and Philosophy of Religion at the United Theological College, Aberystwyth, Wales
Rev. Chris Sissons, Development Officer for Local Mission and Unity, The Support Services Cluster, The Connexional Team, Methodist Church of Great Britain
Rev. Dr C. Callan Slipper, Member of the Ealing Focolare Community and of the Focolare International Study Group, also member of the Anglican-Moravian Contact Group, the Anglican Oriental Orthodox Regional Forum, and the Local Unity Panel of the Council for Christian Unity
Sr Dr Geraldine Smyth, OP, Irish School of Ecumenics, School of Religions and Theology, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Br. Stephen Smyth, FMS, General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS)
Dr Janet Soskice, University Reader in Philosophical Theology and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
Mr Paul Southgate, Chief Officer of the Churches’ Regional Commission in the North East, UK
Prof. John Sullivan, Professor of Christian Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
Mr Ray Temmerman, Association of Interchurch Families, Canada
Dr David M. Thompson, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK
Sr Bridget Tighe, FMDM, Vice-Rector, Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
Rev. Dr Anthony Towey, Head of the School of Theology, Philosophy and History, St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, UK & Associate Editor of The Pastoral Review
Rev. Dr Gavin Wakefield, Director of the MA in Theology and Ministry, Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham, UK
Rev. Ken Wales, Chair of Connexional Strategy & Resource Committee, Methodist Church of Great Britain & PhD student, Department of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster, UK
Rev. Dr Roger Walton, Director of the Wesley Study Centre, St. John’s College, Durham, UK
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Ecumenical Patriarchate & Emeritus Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Clare Watkins, Catholic Theologian and Teacher, Cambridge, UK, Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council, British Methodist-Roman Catholic Committee, and the Catholic-United Reformed Church Committee
Mrs Pauline Watson, retired Consultant Psychiatrist and doctoral student within the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University
Dr. Timothy Watson, Chemin Neuf Community, France
Mrs Kate Watson, Chemin Neuf Community, France
Rev. Elizabeth Welch, former Moderator, West Midlands Synod of the URC, Birmingham, UK
Rev. Dr David Wilkinson, Principal, St John’s College, Durham
Rev. Dr Kenneth Wilson, Visiting Research Fellow at Chichester University and Canterbury Christ Church University, formerly Principal of Westminster College, Oxford, and the first Director of Research at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK
Prof. Henk Witte, Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology, Catholic University Brabant, Tilburg, Netherlands
Sr Prof. Susan K. Wood, SCL, Department of Theology, Marquette University, USA
Rev. Mark Woodruff, Secretary to the Society for Ecumenical Studies, UK
Rt. Rev. Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, UK
Mrs Maggie Wright, Bishop Auckland, UK
Dr Connie Ho Yan Au, University of Birmingham & Society for Ecumenical Studies

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