Published: 2025-02-14

Can the Anglican Model Inspire the Renewal of the Catholic Church?

Przemysław Sawa
Collectanea Theologica
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2025.95.1.04

Abstract

The article deals with the inspirations for the Catholic Church that may come from the Anglican model. The first part presents the main foundations of the Anglican unity in diversity as well as the indispensable foundations of the Catholic ecclesiology and ways of preserving the unity of the Church. Then the article discusses the means of sanctioning the abundance of paths within the Church, all in real unity. It shows certain Anglican experiences which can be valuable and helpful in the search of ways to renew the Catholic Church. Particularly noteworthy are the co-existence of communities featuring different levels of commitment and pastoral activity as well as the formation towards deeper synodality. Such new paths should always be motivated by faith and missionary goals.

Keywords:

ecclesiology, Catholicism, Anglicanism, renewal of the Church, synodality, unity in diversity

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Sawa, P. (2025). Can the Anglican Model Inspire the Renewal of the Catholic Church?. Collectanea Theologica, 95(1), 111–139. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2025.95.1.04

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