Practices Of Dialogue In The Roman Catholic Church: Aims And Obstacles, Lessons And Laments

By Bradford E. Hinze, NY: Continuum, 2006

Table of Contents 

Preface

Introduction

  1. The Matrix of Dialogue in the Church: The Life of the Parish and the Pastoral Council

  2. Discerning the Mission of the Local Church: The Bishop and the Diocesan Synod

  3. An Overwhelming Response to a U.S. Bishops’ Invitation: The Call to Action

  4. A New Way of Teaching with Authority: The Pastoral Letters of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference 

  5. Placating Polarizations or Making Them Productive? The Catholic Common Ground Initiative

  6. The Church Women Want: What Women Religious Learned in Chapters

  7. Collegiality and Constraint: The Synod of Bishops 

  8. Differentiated Consensus, Imperfect Communion: Ecumenical Dialogues

  9. Rethinking the Oldest Divisions in the Interests of Larger Truths and Lasting Peace: Interreligious Dialogue

  10. Lessons and Laments and the Unfinished Agenda of a Dialogical Church

Notes

Index