10/07/2025 14:00
- 17:30
HALL: Seminar Room 02
Proponent:
Alpi F.,
Ferracci L.,
Napolitano M.
Chair:
Alpi F.,
Ferracci L.,
Napolitano M.
Speaker:
Joseph J.A.,
Khroul V.,
Latinovic V.,
Németh T.M.
This panel aims to address the debated question of "Uniatism" as a stumbling block in Orthodox -Catholic relations and as reason of their state of crisis vis à vis the official international dialogue between these two communions which can be traced back in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. It develops on the background of the attention devoted to the issue by the document "Uniatism, Method of Union in the Past, and the Present Search for Full Communion" prepared by the joint coordinating committee in Ariccia (1991) and finished at the seventh plenary session held at the Balamand Orthodox School of Theology in Lebanon (1993). The document hinged on the rejection of the method which has been called "uniatism" as opposed to the "common tradition of our tradition" for the search of full communion among Churches. Proceeding from the document adopted in Balamand, this panel aims to analyze the historical development which made "uniatism" a widespread phenomenon although several attempts to contrast its diffusion. In particular, it aims to thoroughly examine its history and present condition in contexts where processes of ethnicization of Orthodox and Catholic religious identities are taking place. In this framework, this panel aims to propose a reasoning in which "uniatism" is analyzed considering a) the international and national spreading of conservative moral and value conceptions; b) the relation between national and Christian values and therefore the relation between ethnicity and religion; c) challenges to ecumenism and strategies for the development of dialogue between Eastern Catholic Churches affected by "uniatism".