Common Statement on “Sacramental Life”

Joint Committee for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East24 November 2017

An agreed statement on the sacraments by the official dialogue commission of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. Its introduction says what the declaration of 1994 settled: an old controversy over the Council of Ephesus.

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The Joint Committee was set up by the Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. This statement, dated 24 November 2017, concludes the phase of its work devoted to the sacraments and is a text agreed by the representatives of both churches.

It is cited in this wiki for one sentence of its introduction. Quoting the declaration of 1994, the committee says that with those words an age-old doctrinal controversy about the Christological implications and consequences of the Council of Ephesus was concluded. The two churches here say together that it was the Council of Ephesus over which they had been divided. The statement does not list the councils that the Assyrian Church of the East receives.

Cited in

  1. June AD 431, firm date

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