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From Experiment to Encounter: Receiving Interchurch Families in a Synodal Church (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, D., & Ryan, G. A. (2024). From Experiment to Encounter: Receiving Interchurch Families in a Synodal Church. Marriage, Families & Spirituality, 30(1), 6-20. https://doi.org/10.2143/INT.30.1.3293276

Interchurch marriages have long been recognised by those close to them as sites where ecumenical learning can occur. This lived experience has often contrasted with church traditions who struggled to accommodate them pastorally and theologically, let... Read More about From Experiment to Encounter: Receiving Interchurch Families in a Synodal Church.

Receptive Ecumenism in a Synodal Catholic Church (2024)
Book Chapter
Ryan, G. A. (2024). Receptive Ecumenism in a Synodal Catholic Church. In J. A. Berry, & V. Coman (Eds.), Living Tradition: Continuity and Change as Challenges to Churches and Theologies (276-290). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Hope and Truth-telling: A Response to Aristotle Papanikolaou (2023)
Journal Article
Ryan, G. A. (2023). Hope and Truth-telling: A Response to Aristotle Papanikolaou. AUC Theologica, 13(2), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.14712/23363398.2023.23

This article is a revised version of the paper given at the Anthropology of Hope conference in Prague, May 2023, in response to Professor Aristotle Papanikolaou’s presentation on ‘Hope and Truth-telling’. The first part responds briefly to the affect... Read More about Hope and Truth-telling: A Response to Aristotle Papanikolaou.

A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism’s Hermeneutical Virtue (2022)
Book Chapter
Ryan, G. A. (2022). A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism’s Hermeneutical Virtue. In P. D. Murray, G. A. Ryan, & P. Lakeland (Eds.), Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed (321-333). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845108.003.0026

The apparently simple principle of Receptive Ecumenism rests upon a richer set of methodological commitments. These are outlined in order to counter the risk of superficial adoption of the approach. In the first part of the chapter, Receptive Ecumeni... Read More about A Total Ethic for a Broken Body: Receptive Ecumenism’s Hermeneutical Virtue.

Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed (2022)
Book
Murray, P. D., Ryan, G. A., & Lakeland, P. (Eds.). (2022). Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845108.001.0001

Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but ‘what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?’. This demands more than viewing gifts from another tradition as objects of reception. Receiving with int... Read More about Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed.

Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church: The Dynamics of Receptive Integrity (2020)
Book
Ryan, G. A. (2020). Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church: The Dynamics of Receptive Integrity. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436404

In Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church, Gregory A. Ryan offers an account of the dynamic, multi-dimensional task of interpreting Christian tradition. He integrates doctrinal hermeneutics, the ‘pastorality of doctrine’ exemplified by Pope Fr... Read More about Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church: The Dynamics of Receptive Integrity.