{"id":25710,"date":"2010-07-16T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/fr-robert-taft-advocates-ecume\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T20:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T00:19:56","slug":"fr-robert-taft-advocates-ecume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/fr-robert-taft-advocates-ecume\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Robert Taft advocates ecumenical scholarship & theology as a new approach to restore communion among the churches of East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"taft.jpg\"<\/a>The
\nRoman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches should own up to their
\npast misdeeds and work to restore communion, according to Archimandrite Robert F.
\nTaft, SJ.<\/p>\n

\nFr. Taft, a Jesuit priest of the New England Province and professor emeritus of the history of Byzantine Liturgy at the Pontifical
\nOriental Institute in Rome, said that the rift between the churches was
\nsustained primarily by offensive actions–not theological differences.
\nHe delivered “Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox-Catholic Relations
\nToday,” on June 28 at Fordham University.<\/p>\n

\n“The main problem that we Catholics and Orthodox face in our ecumenical
\ndialogue is not doctrine but behavior,” Fr. Taft said. “The issue is
\nnot that Catholics and Orthodox do not know how to pray and believe and
\nlive Christianity in the right and true apostolic way. The problem is
\nthat we do not know how to act.”<\/p>\n

He
\npointed to Catholic “uniatism”–aggression against another church–as a
\nmajor problem blocking fruitful dialogue between the religions. He
\nadded that although the Orthodox faith has been victimized, it also
\nrefuses to admit its own misdeeds.<\/p>\n

\nFr. Taft advocated a system of “ecumenical scholarship and theology”–a
\nnew way to study Christian tradition that seeks to reconcile and unite,
\nrather than to confute and dominate. To accomplish this, the Catholic
\nand Orthodox churches must recognize one another as historic apostolic
\nsister churches, he said.<\/p>\n

The
\npoint of this new ecumenical theology is not that Catholics and
\nOrthodox never disagree. “What it does mean, is that at the official
\nlevel, disagreements can be discussed truthfully and courteously,
\nwithout invective, rudeness, and slander,” Fr. Taft said. [Fordham
\nUniversity]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches should own up to their past misdeeds and work to restore communion, according to Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ. Fr. Taft, a Jesuit priest of the New England Province and professor emeritus of the history of Byzantine Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, said that the … Continue reading Fr Robert Taft advocates ecumenical scholarship & theology as a new approach to restore communion among the churches of East and West<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,57],"tags":[1908,1980,1917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}