EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020004
P. Avis
{"title":"On the Integrity of Doctrinal Theology Today","authors":"P. Avis","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45161114","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020002
D. Grumett
{"title":"Synods and Conferences","authors":"D. Grumett","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020002","url":null,"abstract":"At the opening of the fourth and final session of the Second Vatican Council in September 1965, Pope Paul VI established the Synod of Bishops. In his Moto Proprio Apostolica Sollicitudo, by which the Synod was instituted, the Pope stated that the Council, at which all serving bishops were gathered, was the source of his conviction that the Pope should collaborate with bishops more closely. The Synod has since met fifteen times in ordinary session and a sixteenth session is currently in progress. Pope Francis has already presided at three ordinary sessions of the Synod, on evangelization (October 2012), the family (October 2015) and young people (October 2018). Although each of these themes is close to his heart, the organization of these Synods was essentially unchanged from the established pattern. On 15 September 2018, however, he promulgated the apostolic constitution Episcopalis communio, on the Synod of Bishops. The Pope here endorses the collaborative principle by which the Synod was founded, though he greatly broadens its dimensions to encompass the co-working not just of the Pope and other bishops but of the bishops and the whole Church. Bishops are, like all Christians, members of the people of God and of the Church by virtue of their baptism. They are thereby teachers but also disciples, walking as shepherds sometimes in front of their people but at other times within their midst and behind them. This suggests that the Synod of Bishops ‘must increasingly","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48384683","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020006
Karen O’Donnell
{"title":"Jarel Robinson-Brown, (2021) Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace","authors":"Karen O’Donnell","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42219542","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10011
John R. Meyer
{"title":"Sacrifice, Violence, and Eucharistic Theology","authors":"John R. Meyer","doi":"10.1163/17455316-bja10011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-bja10011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the moral implications of the Eucharist and its relationship to the love of God and one’s neighbour in the context of the violent treatment of suspected malefactors. It defends the sacrificial character of the Mass by arguing that the death of Jesus ushered in a new notion of participation in the love of God. It asserts that attempts to expunge the idea of sacrifice from the eucharistic rite overlook the vital link that joins Christians to Christ and unites them to each other. In imitation of Christ’s self-abnegation, the Christian must lay down her life for the other, never giving in to violent reprisals or hasty judgments about their motives. This benevolent attitude toward the other requires showing respect to the dignity and needs of each person. The principal purpose of eucharistic communion is to be reconciled with one’s neighbour and to become one body in Christ.","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42966229","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10019
Laurel Marshall Potter
{"title":"Yeast in the Dough: Marginal Ecclesial Communities in Contemporary El Salvador","authors":"Laurel Marshall Potter","doi":"10.1163/17455316-bja10019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-bja10019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Ecclesial base communities and other marginal ecclesial communities are still an active and significant part of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador and elsewhere in Latin America. However, instead of being the ‘nucleus’ of their church structures, as in the bishops meeting at Medellín in 1968 put it, these contemporary ecclesial communities identify more strongly with being ‘yeast in the dough,’ a decentralized ferment in a church and a society that is no longer majority-Catholic or even necessarily Christian. This shift is marked among a third generation of such communities in El Salvador by new forms of leadership and sources for theological formation, expanded theological methodologies and mediations for social analysis, and evolving approaches to social praxis updated to the current signs of the times. Ultimately, the marginal ecclesial existence of these communities represents, not a threat, but a gift to the whole church.","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45136006","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020009
Amy J. Erickson
{"title":"Ernst Käsemann, (2021) Church Conflicts: The Cross, Apocalyptic, and Political Resistance","authors":"Amy J. Erickson","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43096487","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020007
P. Smit
{"title":"Gregory A. Ryan, (2020) Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church: The Dynamics of Receptive Integrity","authors":"P. Smit","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48769468","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-18020008
Peter M. Doll
{"title":"Shaun Blanchard, (2020) The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform","authors":"Peter M. Doll","doi":"10.1163/17455316-18020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-18020008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42648001","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10021
I. P. Okpaleke
{"title":"Between the Universal Church and the Local Church","authors":"I. P. Okpaleke","doi":"10.1163/17455316-bja10021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-bja10021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the ecclesiological tension caused by the nature of the Church as a singular and plural entity. As a singular entity, the Church is universal or catholic; in a plural designation, we speak of local or particular churches. The relationship between the universal and the local has generated many debates that have caused paradigm shifts within ecclesiology, from the hierarchical to the communio frameworks, and even synodality. In exploring these debates and their implications for some aspects of the legislative norms, as well as in the light of the contemporary conversations on synodality, the article address the theological question of the representative function of bishops. The evolution of the Synod of Bishops suggests that this long-running debate may be entering a new phase with the synodal processes that Pope Francis is promoting in the Church today.","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48536062","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}
EcclesiologyPub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1163/17455316-bja10020
C. Orji
{"title":"The Christian-Ecumenical Imagination of Avery Dulles, S.J.","authors":"C. Orji","doi":"10.1163/17455316-bja10020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-bja10020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper puts the spotlight on the seminal contribution of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., (1918–2008) on Church reform. When many post-Conciliar theologians were caught in the binary poles of fidelity to tradition or innovation, Dulles embraced a creative middle ground of both-and, devoting much of his writings to the corporate reform of the Church as an institution. In honouring his legacy, this paper shows how contemporary church reform programmes can avoid the dangers of confrontation or polemics by finding an equilibrium between fidelity to tradition and commitment to innovation, in the way that Dulles did.","PeriodicalId":41078,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44709190","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}