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This chapter begins with an account of the unrealistically high expectations of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission dialogue (ARCIC) in the 1970s, which is demonstrated by the long delay in the Roman Catholic response to the ARCIC agreements. The respective areas of competence of the Secretariat (later Pontifical Council) for Unity and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith remain unresolved, as does the ecclesial conflict between centralization in Rome and the Anglican (Reformation) inheritance of a “nation-state” ecclesiology. This leads to the dilemma of what has to be decided locally or regionally and what has to be decided universally as well as the appropriate mechanisms for decision making including lay participation. This moves to an account of ecumenical discussion about conciliarity, subsidiarity, synod of bishops, and role of Pope Francis and the current agenda of ARCIC. The key question remains: What can the churches learn from each other?
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A much earlier period of enthusiasm is described in Mark D. Chapman, The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism 1833–82, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
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Hill, C. (2017). Hope Versus Optimism: The Hidden Rocks in Anglican Roman Catholic Dialogue. In: Chapman, M. (eds) Hope in the Ecumenical Future . Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63372-5_8
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