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Vicar of Christ1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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Where does one look for theological thinking in the Ecumenical Movement today? The first answer is obvious. From virtually its beginning, the Movement comprised two wings, whose respective functions are clearly enough indicated by the names under which they began to operate. The Life and Work element promotes the greatest possible degree of cooperation; the Faith and Order component works for theological and ecclesial understanding and consensus. For many reasons, among which is certainly to be reckoned the powerful presence of so-called Third World Churches as members, chief attention has swerved perceptibly to the Life and Work aspect: social justice evokes more interest than justification by faith, and the tendency is to be more concerned with bread than with God. Despite this, the theological work of Faith and Order continues.
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page 141 note 20 N.b. the biblical prototype, Jn 20.21, denotes a parallelism of function; but thus early the device of parallelism is deflected to apply to structure.
page 141 note 21 This parallelism has been elsewhere noted: Louvain, p. 82, says: ‘in choosing and sending men to act and speak on his behalf, Christ continued (a) personal ministry, setting a precedent for the Church’; Ganoczy, (One in Christ, 1970, p. 386)Google Scholar says: ‘a Pope playing a moderating presidential and directing role … would be analogical to the relation of Jesus to his apostles, though not expressly based on any historical command of Jesus.’