Papal primacy in the service of the unity of the Church – one Orthodox theological perspective (comments and notes)

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Papal primacy in the service of the unity of the Church – one Orthodox theological perspective (comments and notes)

Journal Title: Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN - Year 2015, Vol 10, Issue

Abstract

Second Vatican Council, the biggest event in the modern history of Christianity, triggered a process of opening and reforming of the Catholic Church in an unprecedented scale. For three years have been discussed in detail the issues of major concern, both with purely theological and ecclesiastical nature and also pastoral or missionary. One of the concerns of the Council was also, the revitalization of the fraternal relations between Catholics and non-Catholics. This article examines one of the most important theological theme, which unfortunately, remained also after the conciliar or post conciliar discussions, an obstacle to a real dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox, to restore Christian unity: papal primacy, that the Orthodox sees it as a human invention, without biblical and patristic solid bases, term appeared after 1054, as a general feature of the religious policy of the Roman leadership. The Orthodox Church believes in the possibility of restoring Christian unity, but can not admit the general intercommunion without prior achievement of the unity in faith. Therefore, is expected a decision from the Catholic Church to abandon the claim of primacy and papal infallibility, or a restatement in accordance with the tradition of the first Christian centuries, and also, a redefinition of the relationship between the bishop of Rome and the Catholic Bishops College, in the spirit of a real and effective synodality.

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Nicu Dumitrașcu

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