| The Catholic Church: Nature, Reality and Mission | |
| Tác giả: | ĐHY. Walter Kasper |
| Ký hiệu tác giả: |
KA-W |
| DDC: | 262.01 - Điều hành và tổ chức Giáo hội |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Anh |
| Số cuốn: | 1 |
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| Translator’s note | XV |
| Preface | XVII |
| I. My journey in and with the Church | 1 |
| 1. The Church-‘black, but beautiful’ | 1 |
| 2. My coming-of-age during the pre-conciliar renewals | 4 |
| 3. Theological formation as a student | 5 |
| The Tubingen School | 5 |
| Schelling and Thomas Aquinas | 7 |
| Karl Rahner - Henri de Lubac - Yves Congar - Hans Kiing | 9 |
| A living tradition | 9 |
| 4. The lasting significance of the Second Vatican Council | 10 |
| Awakening and renewal | 10 |
| Principles of conciliar hermeneutics | 12 |
| Post-conciliar reception history (Wirkungsgeschichte) | 14 |
| 5. Post-conciliar controversies | 16 |
| My time in Munster | 16 |
| Pastoral issues | 16 |
| The 1968 revolution and the theology of liberation | 18 |
| Controversies concerning Professor Hans Kiing | 19 |
| ‘Consolidation’ | 19 |
| 6. Breakthrough to my own ecclesiological approach | 20 |
| The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, 1985 | 20 |
| Communio as guiding principle | 21 |
| A new communial and relational way of thinking | 22 |
| 7. Pastoral and ecumenical expansions of the horizon | 23 |
| Pastoral experiences as a bishop | 23 |
| Extending the perspective internationally | 24 |
| Expanding the horizon ecumenically | 25 |
| Dialogue with the Oriental churches | 27 |
| Dialogue with the churches of the Reformation | 28 |
| Dialogue with the free churches | 29 |
| Religious dialogue with the Jews | 31 |
| 8. Present crises and challenges | 32 |
| The present internal crisis | 32 |
| The end of the Constantinian epoch | 33 |
| A secular age? | 34 |
| The Church as qualitative and creative minority | 36 |
| What this book seeks to do | 37 |
| II. Outlines of Catholic ecclesiology | 38 |
| 1. Preliminary considerations from the perspective of | |
| fundamental theology | 38 |
| 1.1. Introduction | 38 |
| ‘Church’ - an ambiguous word | 38 |
| Understanding the Church from inside out | 39 |
| The basic problem of ecclesiology | 40 |
| 1.2. Preliminary methodological considerations | 42 |
| Ecclesiological method - ecclesiology as the science of faith | 42 |
| Ecclesiology as the self-reflection of the Church | 43 |
| Ecclesiology as ecclesial science | 45 |
| The dogmatic character of ecclesiology | 47 |
| Scripture and Tradition within the self-reflection of the Church | 50 |
| Dogmatics as an open system | 51 |
| ‘Faith seeking understanding’ - speculative theology | 53 |
| Theology as an invitation to faith, not as proof of faith | 54 |
| 1.3. Philosophical preconsiderations | 55 |
| Communio and communication | 55 |
| Hope for perfect communication | 57 |
| Pre-understanding as an invitation to decision | 59 |
| 2. The horizons of universal and salvation history | 61 |
| 2.1. The mystery of communion | 61 |
| A brief glance at the history of ecclesiology | 61 |
| The systematic location of ecclesiology | 66 |
| Preliminary considerations for a theological understanding of mystery | 68 |
| The biblical meaning of mystery | 73 |
| The Church in light of the mystery of the Trinity | 75 |
| The Church as the universal sacrament of salvation | 78 |
| The Church as a work of art - the beauty of the Church | 81 |
| 2.2. The kingdom of God and the Church | 83 |
| God’s saving design - the gathering together and establishment of | |
| peace among the nations | 83 |
| Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God | 84 |
| Did Jesus want a church? | 86 |
| The Jesuanic and Christological foundations of the Church | 87 |
| What is the meaning of ‘ecclesia’ - ‘Church’? | 90 |
| The Church - institution and/or event? | 92 |
| The earthly church and the heavenly Church | 95 |
| The Church as eschatological sign | 97 |
| 2.3. The Church as the house of wisdom and temple of God | 101 |
| The Church as the house of wisdom | 101 |
| The public mandate of the Church | 103 |
| The Church as temple and house of God | 105 |
| Current significance | 107 |
| 2.4. The Church as congregatio fidelium and communio sanctorum | 108 |
| The Church as congregatio fidelium | 108 |
| The Church as communio sacramentorum | 110 |
| The ‘belonging together’ and eschatological dimension of word | |
| and sacrament | 112 |
| 2.5. No salvation outside the Church? | 114 |
| Massa damnata or universal salvation? | 114 |
| Biblical foundations and developments in the history of | |
| theology | 115 |
| The teaching of Vatican II | 116 |
| Why then still mission? | 118 |
| 3. Defining the nature of the Church | 119 |
| 3.1. The Church as ‘people of God’ - the theocentric and doxological | 119 |
| architecture of the Church | |
| The meaning of the term ‘people of God’ | 119 |
| The significance of the ‘people of God’ in the history of salvation | 120 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 122 |
| Universal significance | 123 |
| Theocentric and doxological aspects of the ‘people of God’ | 125 |
| 3.2. The Church as body and bride of Christ - the Christocentrism | |
| of the Church | 126 |
| Biblical foundations | 126 |
| An eventful historical development | 128 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 130 |
| The Church as bride and prostitute | 131 |
| 3.3. The Church as the temple of the Holy Spirit - | |
| the Pneumatological dimension | 135 |
| The pneumatological dimension of the Church | 135 |
| Does the West forget the Spirit? | 136 |
| The charismatic dimension of the Church | 138 |
| Charisma and institution - the Church as sacrament of the Spirit | 140 |
| The universal efficacy of the Spirit | 142 |
| Discerning the spirits | 143 |
| 3.4. Mary — archetype of the Church | 145 |
| The human-earthly person of Mary | 146 |
| Mother of God and mother of the Church | 146 |
| Sola gratia — sola fide | 147 |
| Mary as type of the Church, new Eve and seat of Wisdom | 149 |
| 4. The marks of the Church of Jesus Christ | 151 |
| 4.1. The one Church of Jesus Christ and the many churches | 152 |
| Unity as unicity of the Church | 152 |
| Inner unity and diversity of the Church | 154 |
| Unity of the Church - unity of humanity | 155 |
| The scandal of divisions | 156 |
| Catholic and Reformation understandings of the unity of the | 158 |
| Church | |
| ‘Subsistit in’ | 159 |
| 4.2. The holiness of the Church and sin in the Church | 162 |
| Holiness as the mysterium tremendum of God | 162 |
| The Church as the holy people of God | 163 |
| Structural holiness | 165 |
| All are called to holiness | 166 |
| Sin and sinners in the Church | 169 |
| A sinful Church? | 170 |
| Ecclesia semper purificanda | 173 |
| 4.3. The greatness and scandalousness of the catholicity of the church | 174 |
| What is the meaning of ‘catholic’? | 174 |
| Denominational narrowness | 176 |
| Overcoming denominationalism | 177 |
| Catholic fullness | 178 |
| The Church as concretum universale | 179 |
| Ecumenical catholicity | 180 |
| 4.4. Apostolicity as a unique foundation and a perpetually new task | 182 |
| The fundamental significance of apostolicity | 182 |
| Different theologies of apostolicity | 183 |
| The eschatological-missionary dimension | 184 |
| Apostolic succession | 186 |
| The debate concerning early Catholicism; or, once again: | 189 |
| institution and/or charisma? | |
| ‘Apostolicity’ used critically against the church - the controversy | |
| with the reformers | 190 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 192 |
| The current ecumenical debate | 194 |
| 5. The concrete form of the Church as communio | 197 |
| 5.1. The Church of the people of God | 197 |
| Preliminary considerations | 197 |
| The common priesthood of all the baptized - biblical foundations | 198 |
| The testimony of the Church Fathers and of high scholastic | 199 |
| theology | |
| Luther’s doctrine of the universal priesthood | 201 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 202 |
| 5.2. The vocation of the laity | 204 |
| Historical overview | 204 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 207 |
| Post-conciliar developments | 210 |
| Laypeople in pastoral service | 212 |
| Marriage and family as the particular place of the vocation of | 213 |
| the laity | |
| The place of women in the Church | 214 |
| 5.3. The offices of the Church as nexuses of service for | 219 |
| the communio | |
| Ministry as service | 219 |
| The foundation of Church offices in Jesus’ calling of | 220 |
| the disciples | |
| The development of the apostolic Church | 221 |
| The development of the episcopal office in the Old Church | 225 |
| Medieval developments | 227 |
| The critiques of the Reformers and the reply of the Council | 228 |
| of Trent | |
| The episcopal office at the Second Vatican Council | 231 |
| The ministry of the priest | 232 |
| The post-conciliar identity crisis and a new orientation of | 233 |
| the priestly ministry | |
| Celibacy - a permanent topic of controversy | 235 |
| Ordination to the priesthood for women? | 237 |
| The permanent diaconate | 238 |
| In the end: ministry and community | 240 |
| Excursus on the ecumenical discussion of ministry and the | 242 |
| mutual recognition of ministries | |
| 5.4. The Petrine office - the ministry of unity | 246 |
| Biblical foundations | 246 |
| The Petrine office in the first millennium | 248 |
| The Latin West in the second millennium | 252 |
| The First Vatican Council | 255 |
| The Second Vatican Council | 258 |
| Open and ongoing questions | 261 |
| On understanding infallible ex-cathedra decisions | 262 |
| The Petrine office in the ecumenical dialogues | 266 |
| 5.5. Collegiality, conciliarity and synodality in the life of the Church | 269 |
| Historical significance | 269 |
| Theological understanding | 270 |
| The Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar | |
| development | 271 |
| 5.6. The one Church and the many individual churches | 273 |
| 5.7. The future of the parish structure | 277 |
| The parish and the community/congregation | 277 |
| Volkskirche - the church of the people | 278 |
| The future parish - the centrally located church and many | 279 |
| surrounding communities | |
| 5.8. Monasticism, religious orders and spiritual communities | 281 |
| Religious orders — charisma and institution | 282 |
| Monasticism | 284 |
| Religious communities | 286 |
| Spiritual movements | 287 |
| 6. The missionary and dialogical Church | 289 |
| 6.1. The missionary Church | 289 |
| Biblical foundations | 289 |
| The new situation and the new approach of the Second Vatican | 290 |
| Council | |
| A theology of mission | 292 |
| Mission today | 293 |
| Mission and dialogue | 294 |
| 6.2 The Church in dialogue | 295 |
| 6.2.1 The dialogue with Judaism | 296 |
| A complex history | 296 |
| The new beginning of Nostra aetate | 298 |
| The salvation of the Jews and the problem of missionizing | |
| the Jews | 299 |
| 6.2.2 Ecumenical dialogue | 301 |
| A short historical overview | 301 |
| Catholic principles of ecumenical dialogue | 304 |
| Theology of the ecumenical dialogues | 306 |
| The basic problem: different visions and objectives | 307 |
| Spiritual ecumenism and the ecumenism of life | 309 |
| How long is the journey? | 311 |
| 6.2.3 Dialogue with the religions | 311 |
| The position of the Church | 312 |
| The general term ‘religion’? | 313 |
| So, what is religion? | 314 |
| The openness and distinctiveness of Christianity-three theses | 315 |
| What does it mean to claim absoluteness for Christianity? | 318 |
| The one God - the one humanity | 318 |
| Back to the question of Christian identity | 320 |
| 6.2.4 Dialogue with the world of today | 321 |
| The objective of and problem with the pastoral constitution | 321 |
| What does ‘modern world’ mean? | 323 |
| The Church and the modern world | 324 |
| Inculturation as Passover event | 325 |
| Small cells as biotopes of cultural renewal | 327 |
| The testimony of the martyrs | 327 |
| 7. Whither the way of the Church? | 329 |
| A complex and multi-layered crisis | 329 |
| Courage for the future | 330 |
| Partings and departures | 331 |
| The Church - ‘black, but beautiful’ | 332 |
| The lasting relevance of Christianity and the Church | 333 |
| The Church as eschatological sign | 334 |
| Three priorities | 335 |
| The programmatic slogan ‘new evangelization’ | 338 |
| Martyria, leiturgia, diakonia | 341 |
| The fraternal, dialogical and communicative Church | 344 |
| Hope for a renewed Pentecost - joy in God and joy in the Church | 346 |
| Notes | 348 |
| Abbreviations | 445 |
| Index | 446 |
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