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Last issue - N. 9
THE JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSON FOR DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE WORLD METHODIST COUNCIL AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (MERCIC)
WE BELIEVE IN ONE GOD
Sixty YEARS of Methodists and Catholics Walking Together
The Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission (MERCIC) was established in 1967. The commission has met annually since then and has produced eleven documents for consideration by the authorities and faithful of the Methodist and Catholic traditions. These reports have explored themes central to Christian faith: Baptism, holiness, justification, Scripture and tradition, the Eucharist, the nature and mission of the Church, and the call to visible communion. In order to present these reports afresh, a synthesis document was published in 2010, bearing witness to the consensus and convergence that had been achieved since 1967, and pointing to further steps neede in order to allow that convergence to be deepened.
MERCIC has produced three more reports in the period since 2010. The year 2025, when Christians mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, is an appropriate time for the publication of an updated synthesis of MERCIC's work to date. During almost six decades of dialogue, Catholics and Methodists have identified in the Creed that emerged from that Council.
MERCIC offers this updated sunthesis, We Believe in One God: SIxty years of Methodists and Catholics walking together, as a gift to all the churches, as they affirm their faith in the Triune God and reflect on the next stages of the quest for Christian Unity.
Previous issues
IN CAMMINO VERSO L'UNITÀ
60° anniversario
del Pontificio Consiglio per la Promozione dell'Unità dei Cristiani
N. 1
LA MISSIONE ECUMENICA DELLE CHIESE ORIENTALI CATTOLICHE D'EUROPA OGGI
Atti dell'incontro dei Vescovi Orientali Cattolici in Europa (Roma, 12-14 settembre 2019)
N. 2
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
50th Anniversary of the Meeting Between Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III (1973-2023)
N. 3
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LISTENING TO THE EAST
Synodality in Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church Traditions
N. 4
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES
20th Anniversary
(2003-2023)
N. 6
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THE BISHOP OF ROME
Primacy and Sinodality in the Ecumenical Dialogues and in the Responses to the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint
N. 7
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST
30th Anniversary of the Common Christological Declaration
N. 8
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST
30th Anniversary of the Common Christological Declaration
N. 8
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