43. Christian traditions have understood the relationship of ecclesiology and ethics in diverse ways. Distinctive perspectives - for example, the "liturgy after the liturgy", the "confessing church", the witness of the historic peace churches - illuminate different, and important, aspects of this relationship. Several such "models" for understanding, and living out, the link between ecclesiology and ethics were explored at the Glion meeting within the JPIC process, and are referred to in Costly Unity - 22.
This exploration needs to continue, not least because these models for linking ecclesiology and ethics are in many ways convergent. At Tantur we discovered a convergence through the notion of covenant in relation to eucharist, and this is developed in outline form below.

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