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Professor Paul Murray's Outputs (78)

Reforming Ecumenism: Receptive Ecumenism as an Instrument for Ecclesial Transformation (2024)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (in press). Reforming Ecumenism: Receptive Ecumenism as an Instrument for Ecclesial Transformation. In N. Haupt, O. Kristenson, M. Nausner, & G. A. Ryan (Eds.), Spirit Flowing like Water: Conversations on Receptive Ecumenism. Wipf and Stock

This chapter focuses on some of the key convictions and fundamental commitments which have been at work in Receptive Ecumenism from the outset and to which we need to keep returning. It starts out by reflecting on the refrain that runs through the bo... Read More about Reforming Ecumenism: Receptive Ecumenism as an Instrument for Ecclesial Transformation.

Catholic Theology After Vatican II (2024)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2024). Catholic Theology After Vatican II. In R. Muers, A. Cocksworth, & D. F. Ford (Eds.), Ford's The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 (233-250). (4th ed.). Blackwell

Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion (2022)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2022). Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion. In P. D. Murray, G. A. Ryan, & P. Lakeland (Eds.), Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-formed (463-480). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845108.003.0038

This chapter explores the distinctiveness of the theology and practice of ecclesial conversion at work in Receptive Ecumenism relative to other forms of ecumenical theory and engagement. It works through three main steps. First, understanding Recepti... Read More about Growing into the Fullness of Christ: Receptive Ecumenism as a Way of Ecclesial Conversion.

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.

The Reception of Vatican II in Systematic Theology (2021)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2023). The Reception of Vatican II in Systematic Theology. In C. E. Clifford, & M. Faggioli (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (396-417). Oxford University Press

This chapter does three things. First, it treats of the divergent theological receptions of Vatican II with a view to the challenges which this presents for contemporary Catholic theology and life. Second, it indicates something of the range of ways... Read More about The Reception of Vatican II in Systematic Theology.

Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace (2020)
Journal Article
Murray, P. D. (2020). Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 22(1), 83-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12394

Starting out from John Barclay's Lutheran‐inclined, actualist reading of the in‐breaking quality of grace and the Spirit in Paul, this article asks how a Catholic theology of grace – typically more focused on identifying the relatively stable structu... Read More about Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace.

Discerning the Call of the Spirit to Theological-Ecclesial Renewal: Notes on Being Reasonable and Responsible in Receptive Ecumenical Learning (2019)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2019). Discerning the Call of the Spirit to Theological-Ecclesial Renewal: Notes on Being Reasonable and Responsible in Receptive Ecumenical Learning. In V. Miller, D. Moxon, & S. Pickard (Eds.), Leaning into the Spirit: Ecumenical Perspectives on Discernment and Decision-making in the Church (217-234). Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature)

Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology (2019)
Journal Article
Murray, P. D. (2019). Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology. Theological Studies, 80(4), 822-844. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040563919874516

This three-section article reappraises both Edward Schillebeeckx’s continuing significance and the relationship between ecclesiology and political theology. Having identified two differing sets of concerns within political theology, the first section... Read More about Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology.

Charisma, Institution und Trinität im Werk Karl Rahners: Zur Sicherung einer notwendigen pneumatologische Basis für eine ganzheitliche Theologie des Dienstamts (2018)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2018). Charisma, Institution und Trinität im Werk Karl Rahners: Zur Sicherung einer notwendigen pneumatologische Basis für eine ganzheitliche Theologie des Dienstamts. In G. Werner (Ed.), Gerettet durch Begeisterung: Reform der katholischen Kirche durch pfingstlich-charismatische Religiosität? (145-163). Verlag Herder

In Search of a Way (2017)
Book Chapter
Murray, P. D. (2017). In Search of a Way. In G. Wainwright, & P. McPartlan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Ecumenical studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600847.013.45

This chapter explores ecumenical methodology. It is organized in six sections. The first reflects on ecumenism as a ‘method’, a ‘way’, variously understood, about which there is a second-order methodological discourse concerning how it is best pursue... Read More about In Search of a Way.