scholarly journals Relational Priesthood in the Body of Christ: A Scriptural, Liturgical, and Trinitarian Approach

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Kimberly Hope Belcher ◽  
Christopher M. Hadley
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
Eucharistic Prayer ◽  
The Church

A liturgical phenomenology of Roman Catholic priesthood based on the experience of images of priests and people in scripture and liturgy lends itself to a renewed appropriation of Vatican II and post-conciliar approaches to priesthood. The authors interpret the relational dynamics of Christ’s own priesthood using the pericope of Christ’s anointing at Bethany (Mark 14:1–9), followed by a phenomenological examination of the dialogical introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or anaphora in the Roman and Byzantine Eucharistic rites. The way ordained ministry is exercised in dialogical and symbolic fashions then provides the impetus for a new look at the significance of prostration in the context of Good Friday and of the Roman Catholic ordination rite. The trinitarian implications of the unified but differentiated priesthood of the Church are the theme of the final section.

What is Distinctive about Methodist Ecclesiology? A Response to Papers by Miriam Haar, Justus Hunter and Robert Martin

Ecclesiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Kenneth Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Church

Does Methodism want a distinctive ecclesiology? British Methodism assumes its ecclesiology from the Church of England which explains its lack of ecclesiological thinking, its genuine desire for reunification, and indeed its focus on ecclesia in actu. But there can be no ecclesia in actu apart from ecclesia per se. Being and doing are one in God. The Church, grounded in the dynamic being of God in Trinity, celebrates in the action of the Eucharist the wholeness of God’s presence with his world. Proleptically the Church includes the whole of creation and all people. Hence, when as the Body of Christ we pray the Our Father with our Lord, we pray on behalf of all, not just for ourselves. But what then do we mean by apostolicity? Perhaps in Methodism we would be well occupied exploring more keenly with the Roman Catholic Church what we each mean by being a society within the church. Outler may have been right when he opined that Methodism needed a Catholic Church within which to be church.

The Two Bodies of Christ: Communion Frequency and Ecclesiastical Discourse in Pre–Vatican II Australian Catholicism

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-409
Author(s):  
Gavin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Church ◽  
Two Bodies

Today, most Catholics attending Mass come forward to receive communion as a matter of course. But this fact actually belies a very long history of low communion frequency and an institution's often losing struggle to have Catholics regularly receive the body of Christ. Already by the end of the fourth century, communion frequency in the Church, both East and West, had declined rapidly. Thereafter, outside small circles of especially devout communicants, communion at Mass remained for most Catholics an infrequent act. Yet during the mid-twentieth century, in the space of just a few decades, this situation showed signs of quite dramatic reversal. In the nineteenth century in Australia, average communion frequency among most practising Catholics was relatively nominal—perhaps three or four times a year was typical. On the eve of the Second Vatican Council, however, most Catholics in Australia were partaking of communion fortnightly and even weekly. Why this shift? What happened in the course of a generation which turned around a situation spanning many centuries in the Church's tradition of eucharistic worship?

The Singular Grace of Division's Wound

Ecclesiology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Christopher Wells
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

AbstractGiven the persistence of ecclesial unity—that the Church is one—as a fact of grace, is it possible to understand the concurrence of division between Christian communities as a provision of providence? A hallmark of the ecumenical movement has been its consciousness, at least, of this uncomfortable question, granting, as it does, the evangelical authenticity of various self-differentiated 'churches'. In this context, one may understand the spiritual intelligence of the Catholic Church's solution to the problem at and after Vatican II, writ in terms of the body of Christ. Christian divisions are wounds, Catholic leaders have suggested, that would form the faithful in their vocation of mutual self-offering and -emptying 'in' Christ crucified, 'in' one body. Such an approach to ecumenical reconciliation seems both requisite and promising, as may be seen with reference to the present 'lexicon' of Anglican-Catholic engagement.

scholarly journals O leigo no Vaticano II. Sujeito cristão na sociedade e na Igreja

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (291) ◽  
pp. 559-574
Author(s):  
João Décio Passos
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The Body ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

A presente reflexão interpreta a noção de leigo oferecida pelo Concilio Vaticano II a partir do conceito moderno de sujeito: individuo consciente, autônomo e ativo. O leigo é visto pelo Concilio como sujeito coletivo e individual que tem sua dignidade e ação derivadas da condição de batizado: membro do Corpo de Cristo. é dessa condição que advém sua missão dentro e fora da Igreja, seus direitos e deveres como membro da Igreja e, no coletivo, como segmento eclesial organizado.Abstract: The present reflection interprets the notion of laity offered by Second Vatican council, from the modern concepts of subject: self-conscious individual, autonomous and active. The laity is seen by the council as a collective and single subject, that has his dignity and his actions are derived from the condition of the baptized: member of the body of Christ. It is by this condition comes his mission inside and outside of the church, his rights and duties as member of the Church and, in the collective, as an organized segment.Keywords: Council Vatican II. Sugject. Layman. Mission.

scholarly journals The Reciprocal Causation of the Eucharist and the Church: A Critical Analysis from Catholic Theological Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 318-324
Author(s):  
Francis Appiah-Kubi
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Reciprocal Causation ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The Church ◽  
Catholic Theological

The Catholic Church believes in the intrinsic and inseparable bond of the Holy Eucharist and the Church. In reference to its dogmatic Constitution, Lumen Gentium paragraph 11 (LG 11) the Church professes that the Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, is “the source and summit of Christian life.” Each of these two sacraments effects and builds each other. This implies that as the church celebrates the Eucharist, the members as they partake in the Holy Communion manifest concretely their unity and become one body of Christ. This article seeks to underscore the indissoluble reciprocal causality of the Eucharist and the Church, while it stresses on the Eucharist as the origin, the being, and the destiny of the Church. The study drums home critically the idea that the Eucharist builds the Church, and the Church makes the Eucharist. These are but two complementary terms, the Body of Christ, the Church which lives and continuously builds itself up through the Eucharist, Body of Christ. This great theological theme is one of the central points of a deeper interest in Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican ecclesiology. However, the paper examines critically the reciprocal causality between the Church and the Eucharist from the Catholic perspective as proposed by H. de Lubac, a French theologian. It finally treats the interpenetration of the Eucharist as the Body of Christ and the Church as the Body of Christ from the perspective of sacramental theology.

Holy Orders

2016 ◽  
pp. 293-309
Author(s):  
Susan K. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
The Church

This chapter considers the Roman Catholic vision of ordained ministry. It takes a broadly historical approach, showing how conceptions of the ministry of bishop, priest, and deacon gradually emerged in the first few centuries of the Church, and how those conceptions evolved. It traces the development of a Eucharist-focused theology of the priesthood developed at the Council of Trent to the more broadly ecclesial and ministerial theology that emerged from the Second Vatican Council, including the restoration of the permanent diaconate. The chapter also gives an account of the revisions in the rite of ordination subsequent to Vatican II.

scholarly journals Towards a Pneumatological-Ecclesiology: Outside the “Two Lungs of the Church”

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-229
Author(s):  
Timothy Lim T.N.
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Protestant Denominations ◽  
The Church

Abstract This paper critiques the framing of the pneumatological underpinning of ecclesiology as an Orthodox-Catholic conversation. The context for the Joint Commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue warrants the use of the metaphor “two lungs of the church” by official church leaders, ecclesiologists and theologians to speak of the Spirit’s work in and between both communions. However, I want to call attention to the pneumatological and ecclesiological problems in the use of the image “two lungs of the church.” If the Holy Spirit breathes upon and through the Body of Christ, reading the Spirit’s operation in the church (pneumatological-ecclesiology) cannot ignore, and much less dismiss or absorb (either explicitly or implicitly), the charismas outside of the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy. Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, Brethren, Evangelicals, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Charismatics are also contexts for studying the Spirit’s work in the churches. The paper concludes by proffering a mapping of recent pneumatological contributions of other Christian denominations and churches to invite theologians to assist in reframing or reconceptualizing a more appropriate anatomic metaphor for the Spirit’s work in and among the churches together.

La metáfora de la 'ecclesia mater' en la literatura antidonatista

Augustinus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Paola Marone ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
African Theology ◽  
The Church

The modern scholars have studied the maternity of the Church independently from the anti-Donatist literature. But a careful study of the anti-Donatist documents reveals many interesting elements. According to Optatus and Augustine the notion of mother was abscribed to all believers, because the body of Christ was formed of all those the Church bore as children through the baptism. According to both African bishops also the donatists gave a valid baptism, but only Augustine demonstrated how the salvation could be found outside of the viscera Ecclesiae. Then this article deals with the image of the Ecclesia mater as illustrated in the Adversus Donatistas of Optatus published in answer to the donatist bishop Parmenianus and in all that Augustine penned against the schismatics (Tractatus, Sermones, Epistulae). By doing so, it presents a picture of the African theology of the fourth century.

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