%0 Journal Article
%T Normal ecumenism: Ecumenism for the long haul
%A Michael Root
%J Pro Ecclesia
%@ 2631-8334
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1063851219829930
%X Ecumenical change is best understood as punctuated change, in analogy to change in scientific traditions and in evolution. The ecumenical movement represents a moment of punctuated or revolutionary change in church relations. We are now at the point of the emergence of a new normal, post-revolutionary situation in which further breakthroughs are not to be expected and should not be forced. The challenge will be to preserve our ecumenical commitments in such a new normal. For Catholics especially, ecumenical commitment derives from fundamental theological commitments and cannot be abandoned
%K ecumenism
%K punctuated change
%K Catholicism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1063851219829930