Mapping the Differentiated Consensus of the Joint Declaration

by Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

This book uses the insights of cognitive linguistics to argue for the possibility of differentiated consensus between separated churches. The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, signed by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church in 1999, represents the high water mark of the twentieth-century ecumenical movement. It declares that the sixteenth-century condemnations related to justification do not condemn the teachings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319400983
• ISBN13: 9783319400983
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"