David Carter on "Baptist-Catholic Dialogue Today"

The current issue of the journal Ecumenical Trends published by the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute features an article titled "Baptist-Catholic Dialogue Today" by David Carter, a British Methodist church historian and member of the joint commissions of the British Methodist-Catholic dialogue and the international Catholic Church-World Methodist Council dialogue (Ecumenical Trends 44, no. 7 [July/August 2015]: 6/102-13/109). The article surveys the context and contributions of the second series of international conversations between the Baptist World Alliance and the Catholic Church that took place from 2006 through 2010 and issued the joint report "The Word of God in the Life of the Church."

This issue of Ecumenical Trends also includes Edward C. Andercheck's article "Methodist-Catholic Dialogue: Ut Unum Sint and Geoffrey Wainwright's Response" (1/97-5/101, 14/110). While both articles and the issue in which they appear are available online only to subscribers, a subscription to either the print ($30 per year, including digital access) or digital-only version of the journal ($15) includes online access to the past two years of back issues.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies on "The Ecumenical Legacy of the Second Vatican Council, 50 Years Later"

Yesterday I received the latest issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies (vol. 48, no. 2; Spring 2013). This issue features a special section on "The Ecumenical Legacy of the Second Vatican Council, 50 Years Later" that publishes the plenary addresses delivered at the annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 21-23, 2012. I'm looking forward to a prolonged feast of reading and reflecting on these articles, and I hope other readers of Ecclesial Theology who can get access to this issue (check the current periodicals holdings of the nearest seminary or university library; subscription information here) will join me.

Here is a listing of the contents of this section:

• "Introduction" by Sr. Dr. Lorelei F. Fuchs, Research Assistant, National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA, and President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists
• "The Ecumenical Legacy of the Second Vatican Council: Reflections of an Accidental Ecumenist" by Rev. Dr. Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Professor of Worship, School of Theology of Boston University
• "The Legacy of the Second Vatican Council: An Orthodox Perspective" by Dr. Despina D. Prassas, Assistant Professor of Theology, Providence College
• "The Ecumenical Legacy of the Second Vatican Council: A Disciples Perspective" by Rev. Dr. Robert K Welsh, President of the Council on Christian Unity of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• "The Second Vatican Council: The Legacy Viewed through Methodist Eyes" by Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright, Cushman Chair of Christian Theology (retired), Duke University Divinity School
• "Memories of Vatican II" by Rev. Dr. William A. Norgren, priest, Episcopal Church USA and former director of the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission during Vatican II
• "Do We Need a Vatican III or an Eighth Ecumenical Council?" By Rev. Dr. William G. Rusch, former Director of the Commissionon Faith and Order of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA