Moissonner ce qui a été semé : Implications et potentialités des accords pastoraux œcuméniques

Abstract

How are the pastoral agreements, made between the Churches in recent decades, received by the different ecclesial communities? Observation and theological reflection could re-energize these agreements and ecumenical relationships themselves. This article, while proposing this problematic, would first recall the theological principles underlying the agreements, and secondly, expose their content, before proposing a theological reflection that highlights pastoral needs, fundamental unity of faith, ecumenism as experienced in the Middle East, the ecumenism of the martyrs and a look to the future.