Changing the Church

1. Introduction.- 2. From Rigor to Reconciliation: Cyprian of Carthage on Changing Penitential Practice.- 3. 4Who do You Call a Heretic? Fluid Notions of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Late Antiquity.- 4. Towards a Theology of Dissent.- 5. Theology of Church Reform and Institutional Crisis: Reading Yves Congar in the Twenty-first Century.- 6. Sisterhood of the Earth: An Emergence of an Ecological Civilization and an Ecozoic Era.- 7. Developing a Virtue of Eating Well: Laudato Sí and Animal Economies .- 8. Noli Me Tángere: A Church for the Oppressed Putting the Abused and Vulnerable at the Forefront of Ecclesial Activity and Change.- 9. The Essence of Faith: Prayer as Ritual and Struggle.- 10. The Holy Spirit Makes the Church: Changing the Church as a Responsive Act.- 11. Making the Spiritual World Accessible: Paul VI and Modern Art at the Close of Vatican II.- 12. Women Changing the Church: The Experience of the Council for Australian Catholic Women 2000-2019.- 13. The Unity of the Church and Birth Control in an Age of Polarization.- 14. The World Mission of the Christian Church.- 15. Conversion and Change Through the Processes of Mission and Christianization.- 16. Mission as Reception: Reframing Evangelism in the Church of England.- 17. The "Refugee Crisis" as an Opportunity for Missionary and Pastoral Conversion.- 18. Blessed Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church .- 19. Changing the Church: An African Theological Reflection.- 20. The Revolutionary Power of the Church.- 21. The Implications of Transient Migration and Online Communities for Changing the Church in Asia.- 22. Liturgical Renewal and Ecumenical Progress.- 23. Changing the Catholic Church's Interreligious Relationships: Irish American Pioneers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions.- 24. Is Interreligious dialogue changing the Church? The Significance of the Document on Human Fraternity.- 25. That's Gonna Leave a Mark: A Saint, a Sultan, and How Friendship Does (or Doesn't) Change the Church.- 26.

Mark D. Chapman is Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK, and Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon. He is a Church of England priest and Canon of Truro Cathedral.

Vladimir Latinovic is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Tübingen, and project manager at the Academy DRS in Stuttgart. He serves as director and vice-chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.