Not exact matches
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.
As a result, several
ecclesiologies exist side by side in Council documents; this has made subsequent application of Council
teaching somewhat complicated and even contentious.
Each year Mariology was
taught from a different perspective, using a different methodology: in my first year it was
taught as a subject in its own right, the following year it was
taught within the Christology course and then in my final year it was
taught within the
ecclesiology course.
For the sake of clarity this can be broken into three periods: the situation prior to the Second Vatican Council and the
teaching of chapter VIII of Lumen Gentium; the ecclesiological developments immediately following the Vatican II; and finally the rediscovery of the Marian profile of the Church, in particular as expressed in the
ecclesiology of the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Ecclesiology 1) The position taken regarding the interpretation of the
teaching of Vatican II is extremely odd (page 36).