{"title":"The Unity of the Church","authors":"K. Roch","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.14","url":null,"abstract":"The fashionable trend in academic circles of the last decades has considered the unity of the Church a later product of development, a unity forged through the suppression of alternative (and even heretical) Christian communities. In the beginning, many scholars maintain, there was no unified Christian Church, but rather, diverse groups of Christians with often opposing views, each of them claiming to derive their teaching and legitimacy from Jesus of Nazareth. What later became the early Catholic Church was the result of a power struggle in which one group prevailed and excommunicated the rival groups, in particular those with various forms of Gnostic tendencies. Thus, in the general contemporary climate of celebrating diversity, the unity of the Church is looked upon as a later, purely accidental result, as is the traditional distinction between orthodox and heterodox Christianities; the ancient Church, in other words, “sinned” against the tacit but all-pervading contemporary","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"736 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122948190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Abbreviations","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115652431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review Questions to Parts 1 and 2","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127652156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Beginnings of the Church","authors":"E. F. Scott","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130639257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ecclesiology of Vatican II","authors":"J. Komonchak","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.12","url":null,"abstract":"I have been asked to attempt something that I would not allow my graduate students to try: to treat a very large and complex question in a very short time. The difficulty, even impossibility, of the task is fairly obvious. Karl Rahner remarked that Vatican II, “in all of its sixteen constitutions, decrees, and declarations, was concerned with the Church.” At the time of the Council an effort was made to give coherence to its work by dividing its concerns under two great headings: the Ecclesia ad intra and the Ecclesia ad extra, a distinction which has its usefulness, as also its limits, but in any case does not lessen one’s work. The various conciliar documents were elaborated by distinct commissions, working at different rhythms, in the face of different problems and for different purposes, a lack of coordination and of systematic interest that was not entirely offset by the fact that on many of them the same experts played major roles (I think in particular of Msgr. Gérard Philips and of Fr. Yves Congar). Thus, for example, the Constitution on the Liturgy was completed before the Constitution on the Church and the latter before the Constitutions on Divine Revelation and on the Church in the Modern World. In addition, on more than a few matters, the Council deliberately chose not to settle important issues but instead to state their terms and to leave it to theologians and others to work out a more coherent reconciliation than was possible at the time. The Council also chose a rhetoric more discursive and allusive than the somewhat telegraphic language and argument characteristic of earlier councils. One might add to these difficulties others that would arise if one were to attempt to explicate the ecclesiology operative in the Council as an event.","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129966289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Church in the New Testament","authors":"J. Lebreton, Jacques b. Zeiller","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs32qcv.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373860,"journal":{"name":"The Church of God in Jesus Christ","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126339484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}