The Specificity of the Greek-Catholic Ecclesiology in the Thinking of the Romanian Theological School

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AbstractThis contribution explores the ecclesiological differences and similarities between Eastern theologies and the new Catholic magisterial vision that paves the way for a possible ecumenical theology and for the restoration of unity. The origins of the schism between the West and the East lie in the four points of dogmatic divergence. After the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1596), the first great Greek-Catholic Church emerged, in which a theology crystallized, trying to promote the reconciliation between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The writings of some Romanian theologians offer an original synthesis which shows the permanent attempt to preserve the specificity of Eastern theology as a complementary position to the specific language of Latin theology. After the Second Vatican Council, the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the Catechism of the Catholic Church were promulgated, defining an ecclesiological vision close to the thinking of the first Christian millennium when all were in unity. In this context, the new studies and synthesis of Greek-Catholic theology link the tradition of the Greek-Catholic school with the new theology of unity in affirming its own spirituality in the pluralism of the Catholic theological schools, common to the Romanian and Eastern Christianity.