Being One at Home: Interchurch Families as Domestic Churches

by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi (Editor), Ray Temmerman (Editor)

Overview

Taking seriously Pope John Paul II's statement - "[t]he Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason too it can and should be called 'the domestic Church'" - this book explores the lived reality of the Domestic Church from the perspective of that subset known as interchurch families. Approaching the issue both experientially and theologically, the book delves into what these families reveal and realize of communion, extrapolating the findings to show what they have to say to the Church. In the process, it offers evidence that interchurch families, far from being a problem, form a gift to their churches for the unity of the Church. (Series: Theology: Research and Science / Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 48) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783643906199
Publisher:	Lit Verlag
Publication date:	09/22/2015
Series:	Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft , #48
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1

Editors' Preface 3

From Rome to Jerusalem: Interchurch Families and the Domestic Church Project Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi Ray Temmerman 5

Experiential Approaches

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: Familial Experiences and Ecclesial Opportunities Ray Temmerman 31

The Interchurch Couple: Witness to Communion within Division Mary Marrocco 45

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: The Improbable Grace George A. Kilcourse, Jr. 55

Educating Ecumenically: Interchurch Families as Unique Pedagogical Models Daniel Olsen 69

Loving the Universal Church through a Spouse's Church Jean-Baptiste Lipp 85

Theological Approaches

Being One at Home: Interchurch Families as Domestic Church Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi 93

Interchurch Families as Domestic Church: More Real than Imperfect? Ray Temmerman 109

Interchurch Marriage: Conjugal and Ecclesial Communion in the Domestic Church Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi 123

Interchurch Families: A Test Case for the "Domestic Church" Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi 141

The Ecumenical Household as Domestic Church: Ecclesial Threat or Pastoral Challenge and Even Resource? Bernard P. Prusak 155

Eucharistic Hunger in the Domestic Church: A View from Interchurch Families Ernest Falardeau, SSS 175

Appendices

Interchurch Families and Christian Unity 191

Response to the 2015 Synod on the Family from the Interchurch Families International Network 207

Authors 223