Church, Ecumenism, and Politics New Endeavors in Ecclesiology

, by Miller, Michael J.; Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal

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ISBN: 9781586172176 | 1586172174
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/15/2008

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In this collection of essays, theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, tackles three major issues in the Church today-the nature of the Church, the pursuit of Christian unity, and the relationship of Christianity to secular/political power.

Foreword	p. 9
On the Nature and Structure of the Church
The Ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council	p. 13
The Church as the Body of Christ	p. 13
The image of the Mystical Body
Eucharistic ecclesiology
The collegiality of the bishops	p. 20
Church as People of God	p. 23
Modern variations on the "People of God" concept	p. 29
The Primacy of the Pope and the Unity of the People of God	p. 36
The spiritual basis for primacy and collegiality	p. 36
Collegiality as the expression of the "we" structure of the faith
The interior basis for the primacy: Faith as responsible personal witness
Retrospective proof: The martyrological structure of the primacy	p. 42
The witness structure of the primacy as the necessary consequence of the opposition of world and Church
Toward a concept of the primacy understood in martyrological terms
Conclusion: A view of the situation in Christendom
Questions about the Structure and Duties of the Synod of Bishops	p. 51
The synod of bishops according to the new Code of Canon Law	p. 52
Nature and purposes of the synod
Additional provisions
Result
Questions about synodal reform	p. 57
Unusable models
A clarification of fundamental elements of the Church's constitution
Concluding reflection: Why hold synods?
Ecumenical Problems
Problems and Prospects of the Anglican-Catholic Dialogue	p. 69
Introduction: Agreed statements and the position of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith	p. 69
The fundamental problem of the dialogue: The authority of tradition and the central organs of unity	p. 72
Preliminary note on the status of the discussion
The authority of tradition
The universal Church and her central organs as the prerequisite of tradition
Tradition and belief
Tradition can never be concluded
Tradition and Eucharist
Conclusion: Prospect for the future	p. 87
Appendix	p. 90
Review of the debate over my article	p. 90
Two fundamental motifs of modern ecumenical theology and their problematic nature	p. 93
The "conciliarity" of the Church
Traditionibus or sola scriptura? A new ecumenical formal principle
Luther and the Unity of the Churches: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger	p. 100
Appendix	p. 121
On the Progress of Ecumenism: A letter to Theologische Quartalschrift, a periodical published in Tubingen	p. 132
Church and Politics
Fundamental Questions
Biblical Aspects of the Theme of Faith and Politics: A Homily	p. 143
Theology and Church Politics	p. 148
What is theology?	p. 148
Church and theology	p. 153
The notion of "Church politics"	p. 155
Church politics and theology	p. 158
Conscience in Its Time: A Lecture Given to the Reinhold Schneider Society	p. 160
Nature and importance of conscience	p. 163
Las Casas and the problem of conscience	p. 165
Dimensions of the Concept of Freedom: Church-State-the Eschaton
Freedom and Constraint in the Church	p. 175
The concept of "freedom" in modern intellectual history	p. 176
The starting point in the fundamental approach of the Enlightenment
Freedom through institutions
Freedom through the logic of history
The modern concept of "freedom" in the life of the Church	p. 182
Toward a definition of freedom
Applications of the modern understanding of freedom in the Church
Notes on the biblical concept of freedom	p. 186
Conclusions on the subject of freedom and constraint in the Church	p. 190
A Christian Orientation in a Pluralistic Democracy? On the indispensability of Christianity in the Modern World	p. 193
The three roots of the contemporary threat to democracy	p. 195
Self-criticism of the political influences of Christianity	p. 200
The indispensability of Christianity in the modern world	p. 203
Europe: A Heritage with Obligations for Christians	p. 209
Counterimages to Europe	p. 210
Back before Europe
Escape into the future
Marxism
Positive components of the concept of Europe	p. 215
The Greek heritage
The Christian heritage
The Latin heritage
The heritage of the modern era
Theses for a future Europe	p. 219
Eschatology and Utopia	p. 223
The chiliastic model	p. 226
The model of the Great Church: Synthesis of eschatology and "utopia"	p. 228
The utopian city of the monks	p. 233
The evolutionist design of Teilhard de Chardin	p. 235
Freedom and Liberation: The anthropological vision of the Instruction Libertatis conscientia	p. 239
The question about the fundamental conception of freedom	p. 240
Ethos and history
Anarchy and obligation
Practical consequences
The contribution of the Bible	p. 247
Exodus and Sinai
The universalization of the Exodus through Christ and its consequences
Political rationality-utopia-promise
Closing remarks: Likeness to God and freedom	p. 255
Sources	p. 257
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