{"id":2349,"date":"2025-05-08T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2349"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:51:20","slug":"glossary-ecumenical-ecumenism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2349","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY – Ecumenical ecumenism"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cWhen you enter into an intra-religious dialogue,
do not think\u00a0<\/em>beforehand about what you ought to believe.
When you give witness to your faith,
do not defend<\/em>\u00a0yourself to yourself nor defend your concrete interests,
however sacred they may see to you. (…)
Blessed are you when\u00a0you uphold your convictions<\/em>
and nonetheless,\u00a0do not present them as absolute norms.<\/em>
Woe to you, theologians and academics,
who belittle what others say
because you consider it embarrassing or insufficiently \u201cscientific\u201d! (…)
Woe to you, religious ones,
because you monopolize religion and suffocate the Spirit,
that blows where and as it wills!”
(\u201cThe Sermon on the Mount of Intrareligious Dialogue\u201d, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Philadelphia 4, 1985; en La nueva inocencia).<\/p>

Ecumenical ecumenism is a serene interrelationship and a dialogal interpenetration of all the paths that people believe will lead to the fullness or final destination of life\u201d (La nueva inocencia<\/em>).<\/p><\/blockquote>

Ecumenical dialogue has always been a constant in Panikkar, being one of the theologians who worked on the declaration Nostra Aetate<\/em> of the Second Vatican Council; Paul VI named him to the team of the Ecumenical Tantur Institute (Jerusalem). But in his conception of this ecumenical dialogue, RP attempts to go beyond inter-confessional ecumenism (among Christian confessions) to achieve an inter-religious ecumenism, an ecumenical ecumenism<\/em>\u00a0that seeks a relationship of mutual fecundation between the different religions in the ecumene.
Panikkar\u2019s\u00a0ecumenical ecumenism<\/em><\/strong> strives to move away from mission<\/em> \u2013 which seeks to impose, vanquish or convince the other with arguments from my religion so that he might abandon his \u2013 towards dialogue, discovering the riches of the other (La transformaci\u00f3n de la misi\u00f3n cristiana en di\u00e1logo<\/em>, Madrid 1992). The\u00a0intra-religious<\/em>\u00a0dialogue is more than\u00a0inter-religious dialogue;<\/em>\u00a0it is a dialogue open to\u00a0mutual enrichment<\/em>, in which one is always open to learning from the believer of another religion, a\u00a0dialogical <\/em>dialogue\u00a0that may move beyond the\u00a0dialectical<\/em>\u00a0dialogue (The Intrareligious Dialogue<\/em>, New York 1999).
Ecumenical ecumenism\u00a0<\/em>\u201cdoes not entail a uniformity of opinions, but rather means a harmony of hearts\u201d, and seeks \u201cgreater understanding, a corrective criticism, and a greater fecundation among the religious traditions\u201d (La nueva inocencia)<\/em>. It strives to be a genuine, sincere and enriching encounter between the different religions and religious traditions: it seeks an inclusive relationship among these, a relationship in which interdependence does not mean losing our own identities<\/em>, but rather accepting that the identities of others can be complimentary to our own (Il dialogo intrarreligioso<\/em>). It is a matter of a \u201cpeaceful\u00a0interrelation<\/em>\u00a0and dialogal\u00a0interpenetration<\/em>\u00a0of all those paths that people believe will lead to the fullness or final destination of life\u201d (\u201cEcumenismo cr\u00edtico\u201d,\u00a0La nueva inocencia<\/em>). Panikkar calls it\u00a0dharma-samanvaya<\/em>: \u201cHarmonization (convergence, meeting) of all the\u00a0dharmas<\/em>\u00a0or religions…\u00a0Samanvaya<\/em>\u00a0does not necessarily mean equality but carries the hope that the current cacophony might be transformed into a future symphony\u201d (\u201cEcumenismo ecum\u00e9nico\u201d,\u00a0La nueva inocencia<\/em>).
In Panikkar,\u00a0ecumenical ecumenism<\/em>\u00a0in an\u00a0intra-religious<\/em> dialogue becomes the theological and existential attitude of all his theology.<\/p>

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ECUMENICAL ECUMENISM \u201cWhen you enter into an intra-religious dialogue,do not think\u00a0beforehand about what you ought to believe.When you give witness to your faith,do not defend\u00a0yourself to yourself nor defend your concrete interests,however sacred they may see to you. (…)Blessed are you when\u00a0you uphold your convictionsand nonetheless,\u00a0do not present them as absolute norms.Woe to you, theologians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2349\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}