Reflections on Renewal: Lay Ecclesial Ministry and the Church (review)

2012 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-77
Author(s):  
Kathleen Overturf
Keyword(s):  
Lay Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
The Church

Theology of Ministry in the Twentieth Century: Ongoing Problems or New Orientations?

Ecclesiology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
John N. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Service To Others ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

The first World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910 unwittingly provided strong impetus to unprecedented endeavours to establish an ecumenically agreed theology of ministry. Between the first Faith and Order Conference in 1927 and the Fourth in 1963 an ecclesiological revolution occurred. Its distinguishing achievement was to locate the gift of ministry not in ordination or its equivalent but in baptism. This principle was established on the basis of the New Testament term for ministry, diakonia, understood as a total giving of self in service to others. Consensus to this effect developed around the work of Karl Barth, Eduard Schweizer and Ernst Käsemann, but in ecumenical circles strong tensions developed about the implications for ordained ministry. The linguistic study of 1990 Diakonia: Re-interpreting the Ancient Sources challenged the semantics underlying the consensus and provided a new semantic profile for an understanding of ecclesial ministry. The re-interpretation has been endorsed by subsequent lexicography and by Anni Hentschel's semantic investigation (2007). Theology of ministry in the twenty-first century has the opportunity to enrich the ministry with which the church is provisioned.

scholarly journals „Laboratorium dialogu” czyli o dialogowaniu w katechezie

Sympozjum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXIV (2 (39)) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Polak
Keyword(s):  
Human Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

„Laboratory for dialogue”, that is, dialogue in catechesis Dialogue is one of the fundamental human relationships. It is also of particular importance in the life of the Church. The article tries to answer the question whether catechesis is a space for dialogue. It first shows the dialogue of salvation as a relationship between God and man. Then it presents the relationship of the Church to the world, which is a relationship of dialogue. Since catechesis is at the service of God’s dialogue of salvation and is an ecclesial ministry, it is therefore also dialogical. There is, however, a specificity of this dialogue, which is based on the spirituality of dialogue. This vision of catechesis is contained in the new Vatican Directory for Catechesis, which describes it as a „laboratory for dialogue”.

Baptismal and Missional Ecclesiology in the American Book of Common Prayer

Ecclesiology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Eugene R. Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Missional Ecclesiology ◽  
Paschal Mystery ◽  
Baptismal Identity ◽  
American Book ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Church

I argue that the ecclesiology expressed in the American 1979 Book of Common Prayer is, in addition to being a baptismal ecclesiology, also inherently missional. After briefly attending to debates about patterns of initiation, I turn my attention to the prayer book’s theology of ministry, wherein all ecclesial ministry is rooted in baptismal identity. I weigh the relative merits of considering the laity as an ‘order’ within the Church, and consider the diaconal nature of the Church and its mission. I finally pursue the connections between between a baptismal ecclesiology and Christian mission. This involves a consideration of the prayer book’s baptismal liturgy (with particular reference to the baptismal covenant), and of the fact that baptism implicates the Church in mission because it implicates Christians in the paschal mystery.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Francis A. Sullivan, SJ to a Deeper Understanding of Charisms in the Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 810-827
Author(s):  
John Stayne
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
The Church

Francis A. Sullivan, SJ made a number of significant contributions to the Catholic theology of charism. Through an accepted emendation, he helped write Lumen Gentium 12; he investigated the new movement of “Catholic Pentecostals” for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; he later produced a number of related academic works exploring the nature of the charisms and their role in ecclesiology. This article argues that Sullivan’s reading of the division in Lumen Gentium 4 between charismatic and hierarchical gifts, and how he uses this division to argue that sacramental ordained ministry should presume prior charismatic gifts, has the capacity to support a re-conceptualization of ecclesial ministry.

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

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