How Can the Petrine Ministry be a Service to the Unity of the Universal Church?

Brief Description: Proceedings of two conferences held 2003-2004 at the International Bridgettine Centre of Farfa. Marc Notes: Proceedings of two conferences held 2003-2004 at the International Bridgettine Centre of Farfa.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface / James F. Puglisi, SA -- Introduction / Peder Norgaard-Hojen -- Scripture and Patristics -- Petrine Ministry in the New Testament and in the Early Patristic Traditions / John P. Meier -- The Petrine Ministry in the Early Patristic Tradition / Archbishop Roland Minnerath -- The Petrine Ministry in the New Testament and in Early Patristic Tradition / John Reumann -- Post-Reformation Development -- Protestant Reaction to the Post-Reformation Development of Papal Authority / Gunther Gassmann -- Historical Development of Forms of Authority and Jurisdiction: The Papal Ministry - an Ecumenical Approach / Hermann J. Pottmeyer -- Did Vatican I Intend to Deny Tradition? / Hermann J. Pottmeyer -- Vatican I and the Development of Doctrine: A Lutheran Perspective / Michael Root -- Systematics -- What Ecclesiology for the Petrine Ministry? / Joseph A. Komonchak -- Papal Ministry in a Communication Ecclesiology: A Search for Some Possible Themes / Sven-Erik Brodd -- The Future Exercise of Papal Ministry in the Light of Ecclesiology: An Orthodox Approach / Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon -- Infallibilitas Papae - Indefectibilitas Ecclesiae: A Systematic and Ecumenical Approach / Johannes Brosseder -- Is Papal Infallibility Compatible with Ecclesial Indefectibility? / Peder Norgaard-Hojen -- Ecumenics -- Introductory Considerations in the Ecumenical Dialogue on the Petrine Ministry from a Catholic Viewpoint / Walter Cardinal Kasper -- Papal Primacy - a Possible Subject of Lutheran Theology? / Harding Meyer -- Universal Episkope and the Papal Ministry: A Critical Overview of Responses to Ut unum sint / Peter Luning -- Does the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification Have Any Relevance to the Discussion of the Papal Ministry? / Andre Birmele -- A Ministry of Unity in the Context of Conciliarity and Synodality / Eero Huovinen -- A Primatial Ministry of Unity in a Conciliar and Synodical Context / Geoffrey Wainwright -- Towards a Common Understanding of Papal Ministry: A Catholic Critical Point of View / Herve Legrand, OP -- Towards a Common Lutheran/Roman Catholic Understanding of Papal Ministry / Harding Meyer -- How Can the Petrine Ministry Serve the Unity of the Universal Church? / Jared Wicks, SJ. Publisher Marketing: The Petrine ministry has been at the center of the modern ecumenical discussion because it deals directly with the question of the unity of the church. The International Bridgettine Centre in Farfa, Sabina, has seriously undertaken a study of the theological, historical, and dogmatic issues that underlie the issues of Christian unity dealing with the role of unity as exercised by the Pope. This work represents part of the work in which the Centre has been engaged during these past ten years.

Contributor Bio:  Puglisi, James F James F. Puglisi is Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman Professor of Catholic Theology at Graduate Theological Foundation in Mishawaka, Indiana, and director of the Centro Pro Unione in Rome.