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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   ELEMENTS OF ECCLESIOLOGY ÎN THE DECLARATION „TOWARDS A COMMON UNTERSTANDING OF CHURCH.

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  Abstract:   Elements of Ecclesiology în the Declaration „Towards a Common Unterstanding of Church”. Adopted in 1990, the Declaration „Towards a Common Unterstanding of Church”, is contituted as a conclusion of the second phase of the official dialogue between Roman-Catholic Church and the reformed one, containing the minimal consens regarding teh teaching on Church. Both partners of the dialogue are constient that ecclesiology is decisive for the realise of Christian unity, because it implies the main chapters of theology: christology, pneumatology, soteriology, etc.
   The Second Vatican Council manifest a oppening for oecumenism and speaks about an imperfect communion with all the Christians. Church is described as mistery or sacrament, the justification by grace, through faith is given to us in the Church. The partners accept Calvin’s expresion Ecclesia semper reformanda, but reform can be done just upon the human element. All the confessions admit the necessity of episkope in the Church, but not of the content of this serving, too.
   The Church is trhe creation of word and the sacrament of grace in the same time.
   That remain much problems unresolved, which must be discuted in the future dialogues: the authority of the Confession of faith, the Councils, the infailibility, the mysteries and the priesthood, first of all. A decisive step for the throughly communion will be the establishment of a unique Christian ecclesiology on the fundament of the biblic and patristic one.
 
         
     
         
         
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