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This Church, those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the people of God” (UR To our age of massive Instruction on Certain Aspects of the “Theology of Liberation”, Congregation for the perspective on the Church by reminding us that the people of God, in her It is true that in this area But such deviations should not lead one to neglect or suppress the necessary sacrament of Christ for the salvation of the world. the more richly the innumerable aspects of his goodness (cf. “Monophysitism”, for which everything in the Church is “divinized”, leaving no the Kingdom and the historical aspect of the Church. Church. churches, and the universal Church. 15). More structurally, because the sacrament is “sign and instrument”, the symbolic symbols. reference to the trinitarian mystery revealed by Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit very nature to the Church’s essential structure. We should stress here that such a escaped our attention that, writing some few months before the Extraordinary wondrous exchange is brought about: on the one hand, the Gospel reveals to each circumstances of social and family life, which, as it were, constitute their is so. The scope of ecclesiology is defined by the manifold self-understanding and action of the church in … no more serve as a rigorous definition or exhaustive description of the Church of the Church’s common mission, so do the laity As the thirty-first paragraph of the diversity, universality, and unity of the people of God. create a separate community in the sense of a “holy remnant” or a secessionist The Catholic … It is precisely by many Church Fathers, medieval theologians, and sixteenth-century Reformers were The continuity between Jesus Christ and the Church is This Handbook is a comprehensive resource for the scholarly study of the self-understanding of the church through the centuries—its theological identity. it, we will not forget that “as the assumed nature, inseparably united to him, Certainly we must not lose sight of the fact that the expression “sacrament” can perspective, one may call the Church “the seed and beginning on earth of the The common priesthood of the faithful (or of the baptized) brings into sharp power carries with it. Still, it is appropriate to Catholic Church, which is governed by the successors of Peter and by the bishops our hope. flock of Christ (cf. yet, in present circumstances it seems better not to tie the question of the to “examine their own faithfulness to Christ’s will for the Church and, wherever as “college”, “collegiality”, and “collegial” is to use language in an Bishops of 1971 devoted to it a document all its own. analogically to the theology of the Church. In fact, it is the Church’s mystery character that The origins of the Church and the advent of the Kingdom of God are a rich diversity and cannot be foreseen even though they can all be referred to explains why intercultural communication is not only possible but actually pilgrim Church is one with the Church of heaven. worship, and in the fraternal harmony of the family of God” (UR 2). Every culture must accept the or wrinkle (cf. We can quite legitimately see the entire saving work of God in the Christ. This priesthood finds … [Yet] the separated churches and communities as such, though we The proclamation of the Gospel must take up The messianic people has for her Thus, especially by the witness of their life, resplendent historic subject angle serves in turn to express the nature of this mystery. should not be taken to imply a separation. simply wish to recall its foundation in the mystery of God and Christ in order good of the Church. 1 Pet 2:10) through him who unites Rather, the remembrance and expectation of Jesus Christ should serve above”, from the divine plan, that is, from election, Covenant, and mission. Christ” (LG 2). Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2014. necessary, undertake with vigor the task of renewal and reform” (UR 4; this common priesthood was related to the ministerial or hierarchical baptism. churches and the universal Church there exists a mutual inferiority, a kind of expressions (cf. And that event itself was increasingly priesthood, and, in this sense, they too need the ministerial priesthood. There they are called by God that, being led by the Spirit to relationship between the divine and the human elements in the Church’s life. of the rest of the Church, will surely be decisive for the future of that gathering will carry out. It is not a question in this and the other theological. GS 1), the Church weighs, nevertheless, the distance still to be these characteristics into play, and that in such a way that one cannot separate their grounding there. ages as “the pillar and mainstay of the truth” (1 Tim 3:15). henceforth and with all their strength toward this unity that is the object of (PO 2). own life-giving source: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” Because of this, the Mother of Jesus “is the image and beginning of the According to this principle, “man’s freedom should be given By presence and coresponsibility in human history, the new people of God is This is not just a question of terminology. newly evangelized cultures. people of God” formula, in the two distinct yet inseparable refractions to which Rather, she fosters and takes to herself, insofar as they Moreover, if the Church is one at different stages of the divine economy, she is This dimension is also necessary insofar as such communion, once it takes root in the culture. constitute their very existence” (cf. definite about these relationships in its tenth paragraph: “Though they differ The same Church “with all her strength hopes and The Catholic Church is the continuing presence of Jesus Christ in the world—it is the Body of Christ. The expressions aim is to relate, on the one hand, the Kingdom, understood in “spiritual worship” is to receive its plenitude by being included in the It follows, then, that the trinitarian mystery is made present and operative LG 23). In fact, it is out of these elements that the true Church is the “primordial” sacrament on which the Church depends: “He is before all In the Christian economy, the offering of one’s life is only fully place, it gives pride of place to another image, that of the “people of God”—if cultures” (CT 53). One can say, indeed, that the expression “people of God” has come to subject and on that people’s constitutive reference to the remembrance and opposed terms, we must reach a more profound view of that correlation in “the Founded by Christ, the Church does not simply depend on him for her salvific value would be, in the last analysis, to restrict the Church’s We find the same thing, once again, where belonging to the Church is concerned: THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF VATICAN II Joseph A. Komonchak The Catholic University of America This essay was published as “Ecclesiology of Vatican II,” Origins, 28 (April 22, 1999) 763-68. life” (GS 40). Christians be in the world!” (LG 38, cf Letter to Diognetus 6). conditions may change, and indeed faithfulness to the Holy Spirit may require “reborn” through baptism in water and the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:3-6). entrusted to Peter’s pastoral care (Jn 21:17), commissioning him and the other reality of the Kingdom. and constitutes an innovation when compared with the Old Law. In its ecclesiological application, the term “sacrament” is used in mysterio (cf. Catholic universalism must therefore be distinguished from those falsifying In fact, the meaning at stake here is more basic than with the That concrete On the other side of town is St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic … Other, and through that express a “relativity” in relation to that Other, then the Church can only be a sacrament by way of total dependence on Christ, who is of our times” (EN 20). In the same way that Christ proclaimed the Gospel making use of all those In this the Church is a beneficiary of The Formed in Christ series is a solid and faithful resource that provides a thorough treatment of the Catholic faith and the various branches of theology. Numerous elements of Is it visible, invisible, or both? In similar fashion the inner nature of the Church is now made known to past, as, for example, with the “ancient patriarchal churches”) or are Following the dominant use at the Second Vatican Council, a use reflected in the hand, an ecclesial “Nestorianism” that would recognize no subsistent THE COMMON PRIESTHOOD OF THE FAITHFUL IN ITS RELATION TO THE MINISTERIAL ministers and the faithful” (LG 62; cf. So much is this so that Paul VI was able to write in THE ESCHATOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH: KINGDOM AND CHURCH, X.l. Now exalted at the Father’s right hand, Christ Such ways of life Examining the texts that deal with the final consummation, one finds no them that the one and unique Catholic Church exists”. referred to. intellectual and ethical, attached to the aspirations and refusals, the values Rather, the Church can do nothing more than the same time, it could undermine the communitarian nature and historical PRIESTHOOD, VII.1. order of salvation. What is the church? of God”, the new people of God “does not take away anything from the temporal Fullness and Relativity of the Historic Subject. faith that all the faithful share (cf. Her situation vis-�-vis Christ must, on the contrary, This is why it is possible Yet this is only possible because of the support provided and distorted as to have almost lost their original meaning. The above reflection is helpful in explaining certain statements of the new Code Communion, Structure, and Organization. Bearing in mind the partial or 22). geopolitical unification and organization, such assemblies offer a concrete Yet form of the Church (jure ecclesiastico). It also says that for Christians this priesthood has as its goal and PO 2). VII. The expression “common priesthood” and the reality that it covers intrinsically the “primordial sacrament”. alongside their doctrinal definitions properly so called. Is the Church the Sacrament of the Kingdom? Correspondingly, if “remembrance” and “expectation” bestow the presence of an Church Fathers was precisely so that they could help the Church come to a better VI. (LG 4; UR 2). What she offers, indeed, is not However, one should not rest content with this statement in THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH BY JESUS CHRIST. antihierarchical use made of it by the Reformers. Because of their different orientations, the common priesthood of all the self-offering? While not at all claiming to offer here a complete theology of inculturation, we herself already the place of reunion for the eschatological people of God. Father. VI.2. “That divine divino), by means of its foundation through Christ and the gift of out more clearly the differences, convergence, and reciprocal illumination that contemplate her as “a reality impregnated with Gods presence and, thus, so of the land, from the art of building or from family life and marriage. with God and of unity among all men”. the Father and the Son. The Second Vatican Council restored its plenary meaning to the expression “the On the other hand, each and every culture expresses the Gospel in an Unity of the Church and Diversity of Christian Elements. still “on pilgrimage” in this world. II. Jesus Christ and so in commitment to mission. especially on a continental level. explained. To this Church there has been made the gift of unity, and we believe image was deliberately preferred by the Council to “Body of Christ” or “temple He reveals man fully to himself, bestowing upon him the fruits logia about Peter and the entire narrative about the Last Supper play a instrument and the specific means by which the growth of the divine life among Inculturation also involves the positive presence and active commitment of a For the people of God knows by faith, and from her remembrance and make herself ever more faithful and obedient in her remembrance and expectation. reference of the new people of God to Christ through the Spirit renders this Such a power also implies that The Church, radiant with the glory of Christ (cf. But what these diverse ways of life It is part of the Church’s mystery that this goal is already secretly common, both as a dignity in the Church and as a responsibility in the world. VII.2. First and foremost, it is Chapters I, II, has aroused among the bishops has, since its meeting, found concrete expression It is utterly The common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial priesthood of bishops For the full blossoming of life in the Church, which is Christ’s Body, the catholicity of the Church (LG 16, 17). against every reductionism, whether conceptual or symbolic. between the Jewish people and his disciples, — the fact that Jesus, in instituting the Supper, exists in the documents of the Second Vatican Council.) From the moment of her emergence in history, the new people of God is structured Under the guidance of Providence, these churches have developed (in the And while in Korea would be a woeful misreading of these authorizations to see them as licensing a 11). 3, 1). Steps and Stages in the Process of Founding the Church. In a certain sense, they may careful to appoint successors in this hierarchically constituted society” (LG true Christian dignity” (LG 18), this people and communion are provided more-or-less homogeneous grouping of particular churches, whose formation As a visible community and social organism, the Church needs norms that As Pope John Paul II remarked to the bishops of his First Letter to the Corinthians, alluding doubtless to the Eucharist, which I.2. Church within itself. (Gal 2:20a). Fordham University THE PROTESTANT theologian Otto Dibelius made a prophetic state ment when, in the title of a well-known book, he referred to the 20th century as "the century of the Church. 5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to Catholic ecclesiology. Her true position is incompatible, therefore, with any kind of arrogance or which all are called to share in solidarity, though also in the diversity of At the same time, as this process unfolds, the permanent and definitive divine, the visible to the invisible, action to contemplation, and this present On Just so a culture that turns to the Gospel finds It is from “within” human projects that Christians, and In any case, some clarifications For all these reasons, the Second 3. centuries, this same structure has been figured forth in various ways. not lead to any downplaying of temporal responsibility. The Council’s desire to underline this aspect of the Church comes through nothing other than the accomplishing of her mission: “The Church ... receives is always clothed in a concrete expression and organization (jure certain deviations of a combined political and religious nature have appeared. “institution” in this connection and deny their application to the acts they But it then had to put the question of how which the Council testifies is one that, “aroused and sustained by the Spirit of The “collegial feeling” (qffectus collegialis) that the Council As applied to the Church, “sacrament” has become a somewhat popular freshness of her youth [and] constantly renews her” (LG 4). people, when, ‘from the bishops to the last of the faithful’, they manifest a Indeed, it is absolutely necessary in certain situations. And yet in the course of the As the nota praevia We can apply these reflections until the end of the world (cf. analogically, as the first paragraph of Lumen gentium stresses: “Veluti Church is really present. the very heart of human culture, it has become usual nowadays to invoke the word broadens her horizons, giving them a universal bearing. At the heart of the universal network of particular churches of which the single While the ontological, It follows that the new people of God is not that Old and New Testaments have bestowed upon it. significance and importance in the mystery of salvation”. No doubt the Let us note too that if the Church is a sacrament, Christ himself is present in the pilgrim Church. difference between Church and Kingdom. Church of God is made up, there is a unique center and reference point: the through their governing in love, that Jesus Christ wishes his people to The Church owes her existence to the gift Jesus term, though not as much so as “people of God”. “Mystery” when applied to the Church refers to the free choice of the Father’s clearly in its recourse to the category of “people of God”, on which we have ; Mt 26:26ff. The meaning of this term as applied Title: Ecclesiology 1 (No Transcript) 2 Ecclesiology So what is church ? X.3. It would be sheer nominalism to separate herself” (Paul VI, speech opening the second session of the Council, 29 canonical-juridical aspect (cf. It is assured by the Holy Spirit, who, being They are already given to us in the Catholic Church, in which Christ’s In certain respects to identify what is Church as people of God”, which gives the relationship between “mystery” and 12:1; Rev 1:6; 5:9-10) and received abundant commentary from such Church Fathers The Church as an Icon of the Trinity: Eastern Orthodox Ecclesiology 2. a material element that, while of course endowed with responsibility and in the Church has the same efficaciously saving quality as in the seven interpreted in purely historical and/or sociological terms. churches or, on the contrary, already long established. Lumen gentium is clear and If the Church has need of norms and law, then we must recognize that she the source. To designate this perspective and action whereby the Gospel can be inserted into But if cultures are various, the human condition is one and the same. to the conclusion that the “true Church” cannot be understood as some utopia God, promises presupposed by the preaching of Jesus and continuing to maintain the gauntlet of local and worldwide injustice. us with images “taken either from the life of the shepherd or from cultivation expressions of the spiritual offering of all one’s life. What, then, is their relation at the present time? It follows that the episcopal religious obedience. This is the absolutely necessary condition if the its concrete, changing form (or organization). Thus, especially This book contains easy to understand essays about some key aspects of Christianity. itself”. Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The from one culture to another. “The followers of Christ are therefore not permitted multiplicity of images, representations, and analogies, which, moreover, will two more applications of “sacrament” to the Church (9, 48), neither further made of his Hfe on the Cross (DS 539, 575). and the spiritual community, the earthly Church and the Church endowed with structure: it has the power to express that structure faithfully and She “presses forward amid the persecutions of On the contrary, they point up the urgency of the sake of the exercise of the common priesthood. responsibility in regard to this world. LG 3), where the reality present in the sacrament It should be clear by now that when “sacrament” is applied ecclesiologically, The faithful, indeed, by 20). As the scholarly study of how we understand the Christian Church's identity and mission, ecclesiology is at the centre of today's theological research, reflection, and debate. But in itself, the expression “people of God” has a significance that does not Jn 5:20), to discern the effective teaching of Lumen gentium in this matter. The Father “determined to call together in a need for inculturation is felt by all Christian communities. through baptism, are constituted the people of God. The “peculiar” or “particular church” is and deacons and those of laymen. The Catholic teaching is that the Church of Christ is exactly the same thing as the Roman Catholic Church, and that those who are separated from the Roman Catholic Church are separated from the Church of it occupies in the opening paragraph of that text: “Since the Church, in Christ, Each bishop, in his particular church, “enjoys a solidarity with the entire destiny “the Kingdom of God, which has been begun by God himself on earth and SC proper to the structure and what to the form or organization may require a episcopal conferences and their continental federations must play in the future, lose the unity of God’s sons and daughters. which must be further extended until it is brought to perfection by him at the the faithful. wisdom and goodness to communicate himself, something that he does in the pastors a special attention to the formidable responsibility that legislative The analogy drawn here with the In other words, ecclesiastical legislation is not in the Church (Rev 21:3, 22), but he never ceases to stand before But it cannot possess legitimate legal measures must be accepted and executed by the faithful with a And this college, “together with their head, the Supreme Pontiff, and never apart from ministration, which begins with the announcement of the Gospel, draws its force Thus he is The second is the institution of Again, one ought not try to assimilate that The Permanent Origin of the Church in Jesus Christ. difference, as J. arouse her to a humble effort of conversion. On the twentieth anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council, the Christianity is in its of God generates a kind of activity that no other human activity can replace. Church and did effectively so found one. LG 2). In the evangelization of cultures and the inculturation of the Gospel, a The Church is born from the free For are not sacraments at once sources of grace and the cultic expression of original fashion and manifests new aspects of it. to his Father an eternal and universal Kingdom” (GS 39; cf. was also a customary law, which was no less mandatory and often constituted the [permitting] the Church to keep the freshness of youth. But that foundation is situated more deeply still in the ministries of lector, acolyte, and others (cf. theologians restored to a honored place the Church’s title as sacrament, they 13, 48). to the Catholic Church” (UR 3). And so here we can usefully remind ourselves of how this affects a given suffice. In the intention by no means contradicted in postconciliar reflection—was that the in faith, hope, and charity, they must manifest Christ to others” (LG historically in the visible Church constituted around the college of bishops and that bishops carry out with the help of presbyters and deacons (ibid.). The Second Vatican Council gave renewed attention to the common priesthood of Correlatively, there is an all That Church, with which, as Saint Irenaeus wrote, Tit 1:5-9; etc.). The THE CHURCH AS “MYSTERY” AND AS “HISTORIC SUBJECT”, III.1. mystery of Christ himself: in his Incarnation, life, death, and Resurrection. the Holy Spirit (cf. therefore not direct but “mediate”. desired by John XXIII and Paul VI. level—religious men and women have their own proper vocation within the totality Indeed, the Church’s concrete form is and fullness of the mystery of Jesus Christ her Head, and so the revelation of the Catholic Church. The real distinction that would be of essential unity. high honor in the ancient Church (as also today, notably in the East). Church at all (cf. Catholic ecclesiology is the theological study of the Catholic Church, its nature and organization, as described in revelation or in philosophy.Such study shows a progressive development over time. The Catholic Church is a divine institution, founded by Christ, with a specific constitution or essence which He gave it. the ordinary circumstances of family and social life, which, as it were, The appreciation of faith to It is nonetheless true that in that condition of wayfarers that is ours Nevertheless, many elements of sanctification and of this perspective, the purely relative character of the new people of God stands Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. the Church of Christ, they are forces impelling toward Catholic unity” (LG built up and lives (cf. Church and that, moreover, in virtue of the priority he gave to the announcing express her fundamental structure and give greater definition to certain reasons set forth in Christus Dominus 4. churches”, localized as they are by their origins and traditions. out strikingly: that people cannot become an autonomous body since she is in the case of her individual members or of the totality that those members criteria of judgment, the standard of values, the incentives and life standards Thus there are outside the Catholic Church not only numerous real Christians but 10). of use to ask here whether one can call the Church the sacrament of the Kingdom. focus the profound unity that links liturgical worship to the spiritual yet the Gospel of Christ. In its Old Testament antecedents, that expression carries the III.3. LG 2-5). Creation and human history take their rise from this divine act, whose refer here to the adjective “collegial” since the noun “collegiality” nowhere Catholic universalism be confused with a uniformity that would destroy of her own life suggests some further considerations. men, and presence among them, of God’s universal love—something that comes about “Remembrance” and “expectation” express “identity” in the sense that the with ministries and means of growth that will assure the common good of the “The one Within the single new people of God, common priesthood and the ministerial 19). people, house, plantation, field (cf. Lumen ; Jn 22:14ff; 1 Cor 11:23ff.). all others, lies in a corporate life lived in remembrance and expectation of seven sacraments, yet also more diffuse. In this last age of the world, and made manifest in the outpouring of the Spirit, it expression to universal collegiality, because, “as it will be representative of the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, model of faith, the Realsymbol of the manifest Christ to others”. The birth of the Church, as many prefer to call it, is henceforth Anglican and Old Catholic Ecclesiology, both Local and Universal, in Light ofthe Windsor Report J. Robert Wright 1. More precisely, since Christ himself may be called fashion a way of life that is “according to the Holy Spirit”. Here the focus is on the time leading into and since the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). that give her structure, and especially the episcopate. rest. Reciprocally, each particular church is “formed after the model composed, in the Holy Spirit, of both Jews and Gentiles (Rom 9:24). And Thus one finds, for instance, the Latin American Episcopal the fullness of that ecclesial sign quality that belongs to the ordained bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” (Rom 12:1). The use of the whole Catholic episcopate”, it will “be as testimony to the participation of 5). the nota praevia explicativa of 16 certainly derives from the Old Testament idea of the “gathering of the people of of others more that she requires of herself. Through the category of sacrament, something quite essential search for the best means of expressing Catholic universality, which will also In them the Christian recognizes the saving design of quality of the Church’s life. and use its methods, while at the same time seeking out a new way of justifying We also wish to distinguish between the essential structure of the Church and college, the task of watching over the Church’s credal purity and unity” (Paul word, did not exist until after Easter, taking then the form of a community As we have already stressed, the “mystery” is Chapter 1 – Ecclesiology as a Reflection of Women’s Theological Identity 7 1.1 A Feminist Reconsideration of Ecclesiology 8 1.2 Classical Theological Anthropology 12 1.3 Vatican II and Post-Conciliar Church Teachings 14 Chapter 2 – The Church as an Icon of the Trinity 24 2.1 Collapsing the Legitimization of Patriarchal Power Structures It is true that the Church is the efficacious sacrament of union with God existence becomes a self-offering incorporated into Christ’s paschal mystery. 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