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• W330164144 abstract "1. Introduction There is a saying in Judaism that if all of Israel repents the Messiah will surely come. At first glance this rabbinical aphorism would seem to have little or nothing to do with the ecumenical project. I shall argue, however, that the common ground between Jewish theologies of repentance, Christian ecumenical hopes, and traditional Judaeo-Christian messianic expectation is well worth exploring. At the time of the First Vatican Council, John Henry Newman expressed dismay at the definition of papal infallibility because it had, he believed, thrown back the prospect of the coming of the Divine Kingdom. (1) The definition would make it well-nigh impossible to win converts to Catholicism and would thus adversely effect the ecumenical reintegration that he considered to be a prerequisite for the advent of the Reign of God. Newman's reaction was not a reaction against the concept of ecclesiastical infallibility per se; it was a reaction, rather, against its formalized definition and the divisive effects that would inevitably follow. To express the related insights of Newman and the rabbis in the form of a logical equation would be to overstate the case. Thus, to say that brings about the Reign of God; church brings about the Reign of God; therefore, repentance brings about church unity would be to fall into a logical error. The connection is less straightforward than that; nevertheless, there is a demonstrable underlying confluence with implications for the ecumenical project. The confluence indicates something about the steps that human beings need to take, individually and collectively, in preparation for the World to Come, (2) the long-awaited Messianic age, the Reign of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, however that is understood. In what follows the focus is on repentance and the way repentance (teshuvah) is viewed and practiced in the Jewish tradition. In Judaism repentance is not just one of a range of possible theological options--it is the central unifying life-activity that lies at the heart of the religion. In the Christian tradition repentance does not enjoy the same centrality, a gap reflected also in the ecumenical movement. While the themes of sin and repentance do run through the history of the ecumenical movement, they are as sparsely accentuated threads woven into the pattern of the whole. At a practical, grassroots level, communal repentance is increasingly incorporated into ecumenical worship. However, a review of the official documentary history of the movement reveals no statements or studies specifically geared toward these themes. (3) It is necessary to dig a little deeper to find the acknowledgement that the root of the dividedness of the churches is collective human sinfulness. Even less common are references suggesting that the cure for dividedness is collective ecclesiastical repentance. (4) There are good reasons for this. First, in interdenominational dialogue, talk about sin--where it occurs at all--is intoned in a minor key. Tactful evasions of mention of sin have gone a long way toward creating a style of dialogue that is focused on factual debates about doctrinal differences between denominations, rather than on the attitudes that may underlie both the genesis and the perpetuation of such differences. Thus it is that the momentum of ecumenical energy has been directed largely toward untangling the knots of doctrinal positions that continue to divide the churches. While this untangling is vital, it does not reach the heart of the problem. The second reason that the themes of sin and repentance have received minimal attention in the ecumenical literature has to do with the absence of developed collective theologies of ecclesiastical misdirection within the broader Christian theological tradition. Christian theologies have tended to concentrate on the sin and repentance of the individual rather than the sin and repentance of the ecclesiastical collective. …" @default.
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• W330164144 title "TESHUVAH, ECUMENISM, AND THE REIGN OF HEAVEN : THE ROLE OF REPENTANCE IN THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT" @default.
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