Hope in the Ecumenical Future

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: Hope in the Ecumenical Future
Mark D. Chapman

Part II. Hope and Unity

2. The Unity (and Disunity) of Our Hope
Mary Doak

3. The Holy Spirit and Ecumenism: A Shift from Hope to Charity
Thomas Hughson SJ

4. Together Towards Life: Christian Hope and its Witness: Some Theological Aspects and Missiological Implications
Sandra Mazzolini

5. The Reign of God and the Church: Giorgio Agamben’s Messianic Critique of the Church
Craig A. Phillips

Part III. Hope, Francis and the Ecumenical Future

6. The Ecumenism of Mission: Impulses from the Aparecida Document (CELAM V) and Evangelii Gaudium

Jakob Egeris Thorsen

7. Pope Francis and Hope in the Ecumenical Future: A Papacy of Encounter
Gerard Mannion

8. Hope Versus Optimism: The Hidden Rocks in Anglican Roman Catholic Dialogue
Christopher Hill

Part IV. Hope, Practice and Pluralism

9. The Marks of the Church: A Paradigm for the Twenty-First-Century Church
Marguerite Kappelhoff

10. Hope in Dark Times: Australian Churches Covenanting Together 1994–2014
Patricia Madigan OP

11. From the Inner Being ofGod toInter-Faith Dialogue
Chukwumamkpam Vincent Ifeme

12. A Pluralist Before Her Time: Simone Weil on the World Religions
Richard Penaskovic

Keywords: Religious Studies, Christian Theology, Comparative Religion, Catholicism