Papiestwo w międzykościelnych dialogach katolicko-luterańskich

Abstract

The aim of the article is to familiarize the reader with three documents of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue: the Malta Report, “Spiritual Office in the Church” (both of these sum up the dialogue on the world forum), and the declaration of the US Joint Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commision on “Ministry and the Universal Church”. In analyzing the American document the author also makes use of papers by McCue, Piepkorn and Tavard read and discussed during the Commission’s meetings. In the presentation of the positions of the Malta Report and “Spiritual Office in the Church” the author draws on his own experience of work on the reception of the Malta Report and on the preparation of the text of “Ministry and the Universal Church”. The article is an outgrowth of a course of lectures on the subject of the papacy in the oecumenical dialogue conducted at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lublin in the academic year 1981/1982. The author’s assessment of the treatment of the subject in the three documents is on the whole positive.