Abstract:
The documents produced by the Ecumenical Movement collaborated toward the dialog among a great variety of churches in the whole world. It is said that the ecumenical movement came to dialog with the world of cultural modernity introducing new elements in theological action. With the II Vatican Council and its decree Unitatis Redintegratio, as well as the bilateral commissions, this becomes even more evident. Throughout the fifty years of the International Roman Catholic/Evangelical Lutheran Mixed Commission, many documents have emerged. The first was the “Malta Report” and the most recent is the “From conflict to communion” report which are the objects for analysis of this Final Paper. The theme is timely considering the celebration of the five hundred years of the Protestant Reformation in 2017 and of the fifty years of the International Catholic/Lutheran Commission. The goal of this Final Paper is to understand and promote ecumenical dialog, through the use of methodological tools, one of them being intertextuality, since it can be practiced not only with biblical texts but also with studies of ecumenical documents. The analysis demonstrates that the Gospel, in the different applications of ecumenical and theological discourse, is the center for all the Christians. The methodology used is bibliographic and documental. The work is divided into chapters: introduction to the theme, the method of intertextuality, the dialog between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, the analysis of the above-mentioned documents, followed by the conclusion. In sum, the insertion of intertextuality as an analytical instrument propitiates that the reflections on ecumenical theological texts be comprehended and applied with more assertiveness, being understandable and useful for the ecclesial communities.
