Sentences with phrase «ecclesial vocation»

Complaints such as Prof. Johnson's would be taken more seriously if they engaged carefully nuanced reflections on the problem, such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's 1990 document, «The Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian,» or Avery Cardinal Dulles» 2003 essay, published in these pages, «True and False Reform.»

The «Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian» issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1990, stated that no public discussion of non-infallible doctrinal statements is permitted within the Church.

First, can it be acknowledged that the proper goal of Catholic theology is to serve the missionary mandate of the Church (cf. Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, CDF 1990)?

In such a view, the boundaries are not grounded in moral truth or fidelity to ecclesial vocation but would appear to be merely external limits on the expression of an otherwise amoral therapeutic.

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The house gatherings of the Church in China or the Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America, the liturgical renewal, biblical renewal, the revival of the monastic vocation, the charismatic movement, are indications of the renewal possibilities of the Church of Jesus Christ.

The decline in religious vocations and Mass attendance signals the disappearance not of the church, but of a particular ecclesial model developed in the last century.