Perspectief 2015-29

Perspectief 28 Odair Pedroso Mateus fragments drafted in different circumstances by different people, using different theological languages (we always talk about our unity using vocabularies shaped by our divisions), and for different purposes. It does not often flow as the fabric (text) produced by a single author. The second and last element is the fact that an ecumenical text is a theological text written with a view to overcome division. This means that as we read an ecumenical text, we have not only to understand its theological argument in itself, as such, but to understand its theological argument in relation to past or present division and how this theological argument is trying to serve the move from division to communion.