¹ An example would be the Lifelink organisation, which comprises approx 19 different house church groups around Northern Ireland and who as an organisation has recently joined the Irish Council of Churches.

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⁴ From the unpublished address with which the late Rev Dr Eric Gallagher launched the Moving Beyond Sectarianism project in Belfast on 3rd April 1995.

⁵ “And whatever you say, say nothing,” Seamus Heaney, Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, 1975.

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⁸ Ibid. p164–9.

⁹ Ibid. p163.

¹⁰ Ibid. p145–7.

¹¹ Ibid. p167–8.

¹² Joseph Liechty and Cecelia Clegg, Moving Beyond Sectarianism, p292.

¹³ See for example Jürgen Moltmann's Trinitarian theology, which is posited on socially co-constituted, and therefore conscious, rational personhood in Moltmann, Jurgen, “the Social Doctrine of the Trinity,” in Byrne, James. M. ed. The Christian Understanding of God Today: Theological Colloquium on the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin: Columba Press), 1993Google Scholar; Alistair McFadyen's notion of personhood as socially co-constituted through communication in McFadyen, Alistair, The Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships(Cambridge: University Press), 1990CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Daly, Gabriel, Creation and Redemption(Dublin: Gill and McMillan) 1988Google Scholar.

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¹⁸ Cf Jairus’ daughter and the woman with the haemorrhage in Mk 5:21–43 and Matt 9: 18–26.

¹⁹ For example his consistently loving choices in the temptations Matt 4: 1–11; and in the agony in Gethsemane Mk 14: 32–42.

²⁰ For the concept of archetypes, see Carl Gustav Jung, Collected Works, Vol 5: 264.

²¹ Jung believed archetypes to be inherited possibilities, “In the pre-natal phase archetypal images appear no longer connected with the individual's memories but belonging to the stock of inherited possibilities of representation that are born anew in every individual.” Ibid.

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²⁴ The Nature and Purpose of the Church: A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, Faith and Order Paper No 181 (Geneva: WCC, 1998) section 26.

²⁵ Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace, p67.

²⁶ Ibid.

²⁷ cf. the controversy surrounding the text, which accompanied this document and stated that Protestant churches were not be regarded as ‘sister’ churches. Declaration Dominus Iesus: On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church(Rome: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, September 2000)

²⁸ See “Report of Faith and Order Commission WCC, Lima, Peru 1982 in Meyer, Harding and Vischer, Lukas, eds. Growth in Agreement: reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level(New York: Paulist Press, 1984).Google Scholar