The joint declaration, method, and the hermeneutics of ecumenical consensus : The joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification soteriological and ecclesiological implications
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Abstract
The Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on Justification by Faith (1) marks significant advance in ecumenical on the primacy of God's gratuitous gift of grace, central question in the dispute that led to the rending of the Western church in the sixteenth century. The Declaration itself suggests that many other contentious issues relating to the economy of salvation--in particular as they pertain to the saving work of God in the life of the church, its ministry, and its sacraments--must now be reexamined in light of this basic on fundamental truths (43). Further, the doctrinal expression and the catechetical teaching of both Catholic and Lutheran churches have yet to be refined in such way as to incorporate the new insights represented by the Joint Declaration. The simple suggestion that the Joint Declaration has yet-unconsidered implications for the life and teaching of the churches, however, raises some fundamental hermeneutical questions concerning the nature of ecumenical ag reed statements. Even before considering the concrete reception of the Joint Declaration into the life of the churches, the occasion of its solemn proclamation provides an important opportunity to reflect upon the relationship between the affirmation of ecumenical and the historical teachings or confessional statements of the churches and between new levels of and future expressions of the apostolic faith. Recently, in their common statement, Communion in Mission, the primates of the Anglican communion and Roman Catholic leaders who met in Mississauga, Ontario, in May, 2000, called for the drafting of joint declaration that would summarize the progress of Anglican-Catholic dialogue to date. Before proceeding down this path, it would do us well to reflect on the hermeneutics of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration. I wish to offer few thoughts on the methodology reflected in the Joint Declaration and suggest that it offers new way forward. In recent years many dialogues have experienced degree of frustration with the limited reception accorded to their work. Others have spoken of the end of consensus ecumenism. (2) I believe that the Joint Declaration invites us to consider carefully some of the ways in which earlier approaches to ecumenical must be completed by the interface of new insights with the historical expressions of faith that define each confessional tradition. It is perhaps the most significant example in recent memory of an official reception of new horizons of understanding into the doctrinal judgment of the churches. Admittedly, many of the practical and pastoral implications of this have yet to be worked out. I wish to suggest that, for it to be adequate, the work of ecumenical dialogue must not only identify and articulate of faith for our present context, but it must also make explicit the implications of this new horizon of with regard to both the judgments of the past and the expression of faith in the theology and life of the churches for the future. The Joint Declaration has embraced this challenge with greater degree of intentionality than we have witnessed among the other bilateral dialogues at the international level. I believe it can serve as an important model for future approaches. In my interpretation of the hermeneutical significance of the Joint Declaration, I will make use of the model for theological method developed by Jesuit theologian Bernard Lonergan in his work, Method in Theology. The Joint Declaration and Confessional Identity The Joint Declaration stands out among other recent statements of ecumenical in two regards. First, instead of simple common statement of that we were accustomed to seeing in the work of Faith and Order or, for example, in the documents of the Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission, the Joint Declaration affirms a on basic truths of the doctrine of justification, even while upholding the legitimacy of remaining differences in its explication (5). …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it