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The Gospel of Luke has long been known for its variation between good, educated Greek and Semitic influences. In the last century, five theories have attempted to explain the Semitic influence: Semitic sources; imitation of the Greek Bible; the Greek of the ancient synagogue; literary code-switching between standard Greek and semitized Greek; and the social background of bilingualism. Albert Hogeterp and Adelbert Denaux revisit Luke's Greek and evaluate which alleged Semitisms of vocabulary and syntax are tenable in light of comparative investigation across corpora of Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, literary as well as documentary, texts. They contend that Semitisms in Luke's Greek are only fully understood in light of a complementarity of linguistic backgrounds, and evaluate them in diachronic respect of Synoptic comparison and in synchronic respect of their place in Luke's narrative style and communicative strategy.

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Johannes Cardinal Willebrands (1909-2006) certainly was one of the major players in the turn of the Roman Catholic Church to ecumenism. Through his stimulating role as secretary of the Catholic Conference for Ecumenical Questions (1952-1962), he prepared the ecumenical openness of the bishops of the Second Vatican Council. As secretary of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (1960-1968), and as President of the Secretariat, later Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (1968-1989), he played a central role in setting up ecumenical structures within the Roman Catholic Church, and starting bilateral dialogues with the churches and ecclesial communities that are not in communion with the Bishop of Rome. On the occasion of the centenary of his birthday (4 September 1909), two symposia were organised in memory of J. Willebrands, in Utrecht and in Rome.The majority of the papers presented at both conferences now become available in this volume. After a biographical introduction (A. Denaux), four contributions pay attention to 'Willebrands' formation and early commitment to ecumenism' (A. Houtepen, T. Merrigan, P. De Mey, T. Salemink). The next part focuses on 'Willebrands and the development of the Catholic view on ecumenism during the Second Vatican Council' (M. Velati, W. Thonissen, J. Wicks). Four contributions of this volume focus on 'Willebrands and ecumenism', commenting both on his relations with the Eastern Christian Churches (M. Van Parys) and with the churches of the West and to the World Council of Churches (J. Radano, W. Henn, G. Gassmann). Willebrands also played an important role in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people. This aspect of his work is highlighted in the next four contributions (M. Lamberigts-L. Declerck, M. Poorthuis, P.F. Fumagalli, J. Banki). The volume closes with Cardinal Kasper's address on the legacy of Cardinal Willebrands and the future of ecumenism, with some witnesses of close friends and collaborators of the cardinal (T. Stransky, P.-W. Scheele), and with a bibliography of Willebrands, provided by the co-founder of the Willebrands Archives and co-organiser of the Utrecht conference, Maria ter Steeg.

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This volume publishes the papers delivered at a Consultation that was held at the Monastery of Bose, Italy (14-20 October 2002) and organised by the Cardinal Suenens Center of Cleveland. Twenty visiting scholars from Europe, North America, and South Africa, representing a cross section of Christian communities - Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist, Mennonite, Pentecostal and Quaker, explore the multi-faceted dimensions of the work of the Holy Spirit which contribute to the goal of Christian Unity. Apart from the introductory paper of Cardinal G. Danneels, Brussels-Malines, the papers are grouped around four main themes: (1) 'The Holy Spirit and Unity' according to diverse Christian Traditions (W. Kasper, Rome; J. Zizioulas, Athens; A. Hastings, Natal; A.P.F. Sell, Milton Keynes; H. Harder, Winnipeg); (2) 'The role of the theology of the Holy Sprit in the ecumenical movements reflected in its different dialogues' (M.A. Fahey, Milwaukee; J. Fameree, Louvain-la-Neuve; L.F. Fuchs, New York; H. Meyer, Kehl-Marlen; D. Carter, Bristol; M. Tanner, London); (3) 'Classic questions' of a theology of the Holy Spirit (R. Del Colle, Milwaukee; A. Denaux, Leuven; B. Bobrinskoy, Paris; G. Wainwright, Durham); and (4) 'Current concerns' (A. Riggs, Washington; C.M. Robeck, Pasadena; J. Haughey, Chicago). The volume concludes with the Bose Statement 'The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Christian Unity', conceived by the participants of the Conference as a message of faith and hope addressed to their churches.

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