Synodality in the Asian Church: FABC Insights for a Synodal Church

Abstract

This Paper argues that some of the constituent elements of the synodal way have been already present for generations in the Asian Socio-Cultural-Religious ethos. It then highlights how from the earliest times, synodality was a common element in Asian (especially Oriental) Christian Churches. At the end, the Paper highlights some salient insights for synodality in the FABC, by first pointing out how a synodal modus operandi et vivendi permeates the FABC Structures and Being, and then, by extracting some synodal elements found in the vast corpus of FABC teachings. It is written from an exclusively Asian perspective.