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Honji Suijaku: Shell Game of the Gods

MIX AND MATCH DEITIES

Jason M. Morgan

July-August 2023

When one set of gods merges with another, all that’s really needed is to make charts designating which god goes where. More gods? Bigger chart. Easy.

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Ecumenism: A Reassessment

TIME FOR SOME PLAIN-SPOKEN TRUTHS

Thomas Storck

July-August 2023

The desire for Christian unity can assume such importance that insistence on points of doctrine comes to be regarded as inconvenient or divisive.

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Overcoming the Evils of Ecclesial Division

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

January-February 2020

The robust friendship of 20th-century Swiss theologians Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar offers a different approach to ecumenical dialogue.

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Catholic Dreamers’ Failed Dialogue with Islam

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

November 2018

Interreligious talks have proven fruitless, and our own theologians have not told us even the minimum of truth about Islam.

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The Futility of Trying to Derive a Religion from a Book

HOW “SCRIPTURE ALONE” FAILS BOTH MUSLIMS & PROTESTANTS

Howard P. Kainz

November 2018

‘Scripture Alone’ fails both Muslims and Protestants, as living by one text leads to problems of authority and fundamentalism.

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Who Determines Scripture's "Plain Meaning"?

Casey Chalk

July-August 2018

The "I'm too catholic to be Catholic" line of argumentation falls to a subjectivity or "lowest common denominator" critique.

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A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS 'MERE CHRISTIANITY'?

Peter Kreeft

December 2017

C.S. Lewis is sitting alone late at night at his big oak desk at The Kilns, Oxford, writing Mere Christianity, his little masterpiece...

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A Year of Magical Thinking

FAITH IN THE DENIAL OF REALITY

Timothy D. Lusch

November 2016

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Francis & the Lutherans: Intercommunion Confusion
January-February 2016

A joint document published by the U.S. bishops and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America leaves unsaid how "Eucharistic hospitality" can be accomplished without violating Catholic practice.

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The Perils of Ecumenical Straight-Talk

IN THE SERVICE OF TRUTH

David Mills

May 2015

The apostolate of ecumenical clarification requires a willingness to see friends make themselves into enemies.

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On Reunion Between East and West
June 2008

Reunion between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches should be the foremost focus of Catholic relations with other ecclesial bodies.

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"A Striking Rejection of Magisterial Teaching"?
July/August 2004

Dear Fr. Neuhaus, ecumenical dialogue is not magisterial teaching

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Some Ecumenical Straight-Talk
May 2004

Ecumania is burning itself out. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church's bilateral ecumenical dialogues just go on and on.

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The Catch-22 of Ecumenical Relations With Evangelicals

OLD-FASHIONED EVANGELICALS, NEW-FANGLED EVANGELICALS

David Mills

November 2002

When I became a Catholic, many of my Evangelical friends supported me, while my Anglo-Catholic friends kept silence almost to a man.

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Zen Ecumenism
July/August 2002

Instead of universal salvation, let's focus on ecumenism, where again we see that Fr. Neuhaus is more theologically liberal than many people realize.

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God Is Dead but Woody Allen Lives?

Ronald Austin

October 1989

The dialogue between American Jews and Christians in our time is actually a triangular conversation. The third partner is the voice of “the world.”

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On Ecumenism & the Amazing Unity of Catholics

GUEST COLUMN

Paul van K. Thomson

November 1988

The Church uses theological disputes to teach her doctrine, as controversy raises fundamental issues.

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