Professors Pablo Blanco Sarto, of the University of Navarra, and Philip Goyret, of the University of the Holy Cross (Rome), have published Calls for Unity. With this book they intend to explain what ecumenism is, giving the history of the unions and divisions of Christianity, as well as the theological principles to understand the relationship of the Catholic Church with the other Christian confessions.

Professor Blanco points out that "in ecumenism we project our hopes for the unity of all Christians (Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants) in the one Church of Christ". And according to him, this can and must be carried out as a spiritual commitment "through prayer and conversion of heart". He also emphasizes that Catholics and non-Catholics must seek together the common evangelical values, "which must be translated into ecclesial relations between each and every Christian confession".

The publication, aimed at students of theology and anyone else who may be interested, addresses the theological dialogue between Christians of different confessions (Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Protestants).

Authors' backgrounds

Pablo Blanco Sarto (1964) has a doctorate in Philosophy and Theology, as well as graduate in Philology. Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Navarra, he has also dealt with Aesthetics and hermeneutics of art, Relations between faith and reason, Ecumenism and Sacramental Theology. Member of the Chair of Ecumenism of the University of Navarra, belonging to the Societas Oecumenica.

Among other works he has published La Cena del Señor. The Eucharist in Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue (2009); Luther, 500 Years Later. A Brief History and Theology of Protestantism (2016), and Ministri Ecclesiae. Eucharist, Ministry and Ecclesiology in Lutheran/Catholic Dialogue (2017).

Philip Goyret (1956), industrial engineer and doctor in Theology, is Full Professor of Ecclesiology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, where he has been Vice President. He has also dealt with ecumenism and sacramental theology. He was an expert witness at the X Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2001. He has published, among other titles, Called, Consecrated, Sent ( 2001), The Anointing in the Spirit ( 2004) and From Easter to Parousia (2007), and has been one of the editors of the Dictionary of Ecclesiology (2010, Italian version; 2016, Spanish translation).