Ecumenical dialogue, which gained its legitimacy and momentum in the Catholic Church at the 2nd Vatican Council, also enjoyed a revival among Slovenians. Stanko Janežič particularly stands out with his theoretical and professional, practical-pastoral, and religious-spiritual creation and work in the field of ecumenism in the Slovenian territory. His ecumenical work and thought, on the one hand, characterises realism, built on the adoption of realistic non-unity, which is reflected in the rich diversity of Christian Churches, theologies, practices, and spiritual attitudes, and on the other hand, his unbending visionary optimism, that it is possible to think, build, and live the Christian paradigm of one (only) Church of Christ as »unity in diversity.« Janežič’s visionary optimism is rooted in his optimistic, poetical, towards the beauty of creation-oriented nature and dialogic personality, in belief, that every human, redeemed in the Paschal Mystery, is good; that the wealth of the one and only Church is only in its variety (diversity), and that the origin, source, and the model of the unity of the Church is the Trinitarian Good as a community of love. Unity is created by love without eliminating diversity.
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