Sentences with phrase «catholic ecclesiology»

Early modern Catholic ecclesiology was triumphalist and also dialectical and militant.

The chapter is stimulating, especially in its presentation of a covenantal conception of the Church, but unfortunately it is marred by a misrepresentation of Catholic ecclesiology.

But so too did the repressive authoritarianism of post-Tridentine Catholicism, the emergence of a Catholic ecclesiology inimical to true communitas by its overemphasis on clerical power and centralized authority, and the acceptance into Catholic theology, philosophy, and anthropology of a dualistic Cartesianism every bit as inimical to the medieval intellectual and moral synthesis (if such a thing can be said to have existed) as anything that emerged from Wittenberg or Geneva.

Newman himself was not in favour of committees and considered that Church councils occupied a place but not the place in Catholic ecclesiology.

There are several assertions that are ambiguous from the viewpoint of Catholic ecclesiology.

In the context of Catholic ecclesiology, for the pope to say, before a viewing audience of millions, that abuse cases were «sometimes very badly handled» was a dressing down, although not as severe as some had hoped for.

Cardinal Dulles writes that there still exists a general impression that Vatican II mandated a revolution in Catholic ecclesiology.

For according to Catholic ecclesiology the fundamental constitution of the Church is of divine right and hence immutable.

Another element of Catholic ecclesiology makes clear the fundamental difference between democracy in the Church and in secular society.

In short, once the influence of the market economy is added to the mix, Griffiths finds that Taylor's book warrants a Catholic ecclesiology, «something more like a rapturous self - giving to the embrace of the sponsa verbi.»

Not exact matches

The key lack in Alpha, from the point of view of the Catholic tradition, is ecclesiology.

The LCWR's ecclesiology, far from being truly catholic and encompassing, is limited to one interpretation of the «spirit» of the Second Vatican Council.

The moral theology that I was taught and that for some years I myself taught reflected the immigrant Catholic community Kennedy described as well as the ecclesiology that nourished it.

Volf believes that classical Catholic and Orthodox theologians have harnessed their trinitarian views to a certain kind of ecclesiology, resulting in two ecclesial practices that Volf finds unacceptable and potentially repressive: the exclusive and indispensable sacerdotal office of the bishop or priest and the disqualification of laity in the «order of salvation.»

Volf's rigorous ecclesiology is rooted in the theology of the Trinity, and presents a challenge to the ecclesiologies of Catholic, Orthodox and most mainline Protestant churches.

The Anglican — Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S. has just published a statement on «Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment» that urges Episcopalians and Roman Catholics to enter «into each other's struggles, accepting them as our own, that we may bear witness to our unity in Christ.»

The Catholic Church holds a similar ecclesiology.

On this score, Christopher Wells is more attuned to my concerns, when he notes that the U.S. Anglican — Roman Catholic Consultation's recent statement on «Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment» properly called on each Church to «share» in the moral struggles of the other, rather than to use them as clubs with which to beat the other.

Mr. Benne must have neglected his lessons in church history, as he seems unaware that the catholic tradition of ecclesiology, which is quite enthusiastic about ecclesial life, has always resisted the elitism prominent in schismatic renderings of the Church.

The second source of opposition, predictably, was the Council for Ecumenism, who were still clinging to the unreal fantasy - despite women - priests and what that issue revealed about Anglican ecclesiology - of Anglican - Catholic unity.

Roman Catholic and Orthodox theologians have in recent years taken the lead in developing a «communio» ecclesiology or doctrine of the church.

Dulles's renowned work on ecclesiology informed the ECT dialogue and stressed the importance of seeking full visible unity within the body of Christ while emphasizing spiritual ecumenism and intermediate steps that Catholic and evangelicals could — and should — take together in the meantime.

Then, in the 1970s, came the revisionist view that Hecker, and bishops like John Ireland of St. Paul - Minneapolis, John Keane of Catholic University, and Cardinal Gibbons, were in fact exploring a new ecclesiology, a new way of thinking about the Church, that Vatican II would vindicate in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.