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As Avery Dulles recounts it in\u00a0The Catholicity of the Church<\/a>, the reforms of Vatican II came partly from what Paul Murray calls \u201c receptive ecumenism<\/a>,\u201d an ecumenism of attentive listening to the other.<\/p>\n

Dulles wasn\u2019t exactly a receptive ecumenist himself. While acknowledging that \u201cthe Church can certainly profit from external criticism, whether from friendly or from hostile sources,\u201d he insists that \u201cthe Catholic comprehensiveness is so great that it includes the necessary principles for the self-reformation of the Church\u201d (158).<\/p>\n

Still, he acknowledges that \u201ctheology of the word, as developed by Barth and others, this Constitution restored the Bible to its central place in Catholic theology and spirituality\u201d (161), and more generally he stresses the role of \u201ccertain \u2018prophetic\u2019 criticisms of Roman Catholicism, voiced by Protestant theologians such as Barth and Tillich\u201d that \u201cassisted the council in its efforts at Catholic self-appraisal and renewal\u201d (165).\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are signs that \u201cProtestant and Catholic churches are responding to, and incorporating, each other\u2019s concerns\u201d (165)and concludes that \u201ceach ecclesial body must both give and receive the greatest measure of enrichment and correction that it can through mutual witness and dialogue\u201d (166).<\/p>\n

Dulles\u2019s book was published over 25 years ago, and his view of Protestantism has traces of caricature. Still already then an ecumenism of gift-exchange was coming to light.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"