Changing the Church: Transformations of Christian Belief, Practice, and Life

1. Introduction

Vladimir Latinovic and Mark Chapman

Part I: History and Theology

2. From Rigor to Reconciliation: Cyprian of Carthage on Changing Penitential Practice David G. Hunter

3. Who do You Call a Heretic? Fluid Notions of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Late Antiquity
Vladimir Latinovic
4. Towards a Theology of Dissent
Judith Gruber

5. Theology of Church Reform and Institutional Crisis: Reading Yves Congar in the Twenty-first Century
Massimo Faggioli

Part II: Society and Gender
6. Sisterhood of the Earth: An Emergence of an Ecological Civilization and an Ecozoic Era
Elaine Padilla

7. Developing a Virtue of Eating Well: Laudato Sí and Animal Economies
Matthew Eaton
8. Noli Me Tángere: A Church for the Oppressed Putting the Abused and Vulnerable at the Forefront of Ecclesial Activity and Change Cristina Lledo Gomez

9. The Essence of Faith: Prayer as Ritual and Struggle
Mary McClintock Fulkerson

10. The Holy Spirit Makes the Church: Changing the Church as a Responsive Act
Scott MacDougall

11. Making the Spiritual World Accessible: Paul VI and Modern Art at the Close of Vatican II Susie Paulik Babka
12. Women Changing the Church: The Experience of the Council for Australian Catholic Women 2000-2019
Patricia Madigan OP

13. The Unity of the Church and Birth Control in an Age of Polarization
Dennis M. Doyle
Part III: Mission and World Christianity

14. The World Mission of the Christian Church
Roger Haight, S.J.

15. Conversion and Change Through the Processes of Mission and Christianization
Paul M. Collins

16. Mission as Reception: Reframing Evangelism in the Church of England
Martyn Percy

17. The "Refugee Crisis" as an Opportunity for Missionary and Pastoral Conversion
Gioacchino Campese

18. Blessed Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church
Darren J. Dias

19. Changing the Church: An African Theological Reflection
Stan Chu Ilo

20. The Revolutionary Power of the Church
Debora Tonelli

21. The Implications of Transient Migration and Online Communities for Changing the Church in Asia

Jonathan Y. Tan

Part IV: Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue

22. Liturgical Renewal and Ecumenical Progress
John Borelli

23. Changing the Catholic Church's Interreligious Relationships: Irish American Pioneers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
Leo D. Lefebure
24. Is Interreligious dialogue changing the Church? The Significance of the Document on Human Fraternity
Roberto Catalano
25. That's Gonna Leave a Mark: A Saint, a Sultan, and How Friendship Does (or Doesn't) Change the Church
Jason Welle, O.F.M.

26. Three's Company in Interfaith Dialogue: A Protestant Modus for Engagement with Those from Other Faiths.
Nicolas G. Mumejian

27. Reforming Anti-Judaism in a Church Called to Communion Mary Doak

Part v: Ecclesiology
28. Overcoming 'The Church as counter-sign of the Kingdom'
Paul Avis
29. To Live According to the Form of the Holy Gospel: Francis of Assisi's Embodied Challenge to the Institutional Church
Craig A. Phillips

30. Authority and Change: The Role of Authority in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran World Federation
Miriam Haar

31. "Stop, Stop and Listen": Changing the Church by Listening to its Life
Andrew Pierce

32. How Should the Church Teach? A Mode of Learning and Teaching for Our Times
Peter C. Phan

33. Towards a Re-Reading of the Dogmas of Vatican I
Peter Neuner

34. Ecclesial Reform and Human Cultures
Sandra Mazzolini
35. Ecclesiology in Extremis
Dale T. Irvin

Part VI: Synodality and Participation

36. Ecclesial Extroversion: On the Reform in the Current Pontificate
Sandra Arenas

37 Synodality as a Key Component of the Pontificate of Pope Francis: The Difficult Way from Theory to Practice
Peter De Mey
38. Changing the Church Through Synodality
Brian P. Flanagan

39. Local Synodality: An Unnoticed Change
Radu Bordeianu

40. Problems at the Periphery: A Productive Confusion in "The Speech That Got Pope Francis Elected."
Paul Lakeland

41. Milestones for the Next Council: Conciliar Experiences and Global Synodality Luc Forestier

Index