Steps on the Path to Unity: Courage to Pray Together

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Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, “Synodality and Primacy during the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in Service to the Unity of the Church,” September 21, 2016, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/ch_orthodox_docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20160921_sinodality-primacy_en.html.

North American Orthodox–Catholic Theological Consultation, “Steps Towards a Reunited Church: A Sketch of an Orthodox-Catholic Vision for the Future,” October 2, 2010, http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/ecumenical-and-interreligious/ecumenical/orthodox/steps-towards-reunited-church.cfm.

See, for example, Thomas Hopko, “Roman Presidency and Christian Unity in Our Time,” September 25, 2005, http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/HopkoPope.php.

Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, “Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia,” February 12, 2016, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2016/february/documents/papa-francesco_20160212_dichiarazione-comune-kirill.html.

See Josiah Trenham, Rock and Sand: An Orthodox Appraisal of the Protestant Reformers and Their Teachings (Columbia, MO: Newrome Press, 2015), 307–15, for an attempt to legitimize the Orthodox use of the word heresy.

See “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World,” 2016, https://www.holycouncil.org/-/rest-of-christian-world, especially ¶ 6.

“Joint Declaration,” ¶¶ 8–11 (see n. 4).

Patriarch Ieronymos II, Pope Francis, and Patriarch Bartholomew, “Joint Declaration of His Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, of His Beatitude Ieronymos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and of His Holiness Pope Francis,” April 16, 2016, https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2016/april/documents/papa-francesco_20160416_lesvos-dichiarazione-congiunta.html.

Patriarch Bartholomew, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Ecological Vision and Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, ed. John Chryssavgis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).

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Nicholas E. Denysenko

Nicholas E. Denysenko is the Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.