Sacred Speech? The Language of the Dialogue of Love between the Roman Church and the Church of Constantinople

Abstract

This article offers a possible answer to ecumenism's problematical question as to how to arrive at a common theological language in which the particular Christian traditions can recognise themselves. Drawing upon insights from thinkers such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Anton Ugolnik, it proposes that the language of the on-going Dialogue of Love between the Church of Rome and the Patriarchate of Constantinople makes it possible to recognise the language of the other as a possible system of expression of the meta-language of Revelation.