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Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Vatican II First dogmatic constitution on the church of Christ Vatican I The Church's Contemporary Mission Pope Paul VI: Ecclesiam Suam, 1964 The Mystical Body of Christ Pope Pius XII: Mystici Corporis, 1943 On the Supranationality of the Church Pope Pius XII: Ad Sinarum Gentem, 1954 Some Aspects of the Church Understood As Communion 1992 letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith General Catechetical Directory, 1971 See articles 65-67 on The Church, People of God and Saving Institution; The Church as Communion; The Church as Saving Institution Holy Office: 1949 Letter to the Archbishop of Boston Explaining the true sense of Catholic doctrine that there is no salvation outside the Church Another Way of Being Church Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga Plá The Claims of the Primacy and the Costly Call to Unity Archbishop John R. Quinn's Oxford lecture on papacy and collegiality The Unity of the Catholic Church By St. Cyprian [200-258 AD] A Global Sign of Outward Grace: The Sacramentality of the World Church in the Era of Globalization By Agbonkianmeghe Orobator in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 2012 Response to Orobator By William J. O'Neill in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 2012 The Infallibility of the Church: A Marian Mystery By Roch Kereszty in Communio: International Catholic Review, Fall 2011 A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland By Gerry O'Hanlon SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, June 2011 Gratitude as a Christian Virtue and it's Involvement in the Mission of the Church By Sorin Cosma. Scroll to page 27. Theologia, a publication of the Orthodox Theology Faculty from “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, July-September 2011 Contrasting ecclesial functions in the second century: “Diakonia,” “Diakonoi,” “Episkopoi” and “Presbyteroi” in the Shepherd of Hermas and Ignatius of Antioch's Letters By Dan Batovici, 2011 Anti-Catholicism and Modern Church-State Relations By Thomas C. Berg, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law, Fall 2011 The Church By Christian W. Troll, S.J. in Muslims ask, Christians answer, 2010 Salvation outside the Church - But why, then, evangelize?: Reflections from a Roman Catholic perspective By Stephen Bevans, SVD, January 2010 Of Such is the Kingdom (cf. 1 Timothy 4:12) By Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania on the website Catholica, 2010. On important differences between Byzantine and Latin Rite practices The Church Community: A Distinct Cultural, Social and Spiritual Context By Margaret Ghosn MHSF Images, Understandings, and Models of the Church in History: An Update By Brian Gleeson CP The Church as Liberation Community from Patriarchy: The Praxis of Ministry as Discipleship of Equals By Rosemary Radford Ruether Pope Benedict XVI and the Church By Thomas P. Rausch SJin Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, September 2010 Church: Seeking First the Kingdom of God By Gerard M Goldman in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2010 Towards a "Lay Hermeneutic" in Ecclesiology By Levy Lara Lanaria in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI and the Church By Thomas Rausch SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, September 2010 Florosky's “The Boundaries of the Church” in Dialogue with the Reformed Tradition: Toward a Catholic and Charismatic Ecumenical Ecclesiology By Rev. Steven D. Aguzzi, Spring 2009 The Role of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in the Implementation of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace in Africa By Joseph G. Healey, M.M., September 2009 What on Earth's the Church For? By Peter Knott SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, June 2009 The Mission Has a Church, The Mission Has Ministers: Thinking Missiologically about Ministry and the Shortage of Priests By Stephen Bevans, SVD in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2009 Animating Leadership in the People of God By Gail Gill in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2009 The Challenges Facing the Church in Ireland in the Aftermath of the Ryan Report By Aileen Walsh in Working Notes of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, November 2009 What on Earth's the Church for? By Peter Knott SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, June 2009 Gaudium et Spes - The Shape of the Church: Past, Present and to Come… By Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, March 2009 Gaudium et Spes -The Shape of the Church: Past, Present and to Come… By Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, February 2009 The Priesthood Today: We're All in This Together By James Martin, S.J. in Catholic Update, 2009 The European Convention on Human Rights and Church-State Relations: Pluralism vs. Pluralism By Françoise Tulkens in Cardozo Law Review, June 2009 Vatican II and the Ecclesiology of Joseph Ratzinger By Fr. Maximilian Heinrich Heim. The Introduction to Joseph Ratzinger: Life in the Church and Living Theology—Fundamentals of Ecclesiology with Reference to Lumen Gentium. Ignatius Insight, 2008 Bonhoeffer's Missional Ecclesiology By Patrick Franklin in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, vol 9, 2007-2008 The Church's Engagement in Civil Society: A New Way of Being Christians in India Today By Michael Amaladoss, SJ, in Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection, August 2008 The Church as Sacrament of the Kingdom: A Reformed Commentary By M E Brinkman, VU University Amsterdam, in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2008 Trying to Get It Right: Taking Seriously the Church as a People Gathered by God Linda M. Cannell in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2008. Scroll down to page 11 Equipping Leadership: Preparing God's People for Personal, Congregational, and Community Transformation Elizabeth A. Wourms in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2008. Scroll down to page 93 Joining and Belonging: Toward Church Membership as Sharing in Mission By Steve Wimmer in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2008. Scroll down to page 82 The Meaning of Subsistit In As Explained by The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith By Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. in Theological Studies, March 2008 Some Considerations on Collegiality and Synodality in the Light of Lumen Gentium By Claudiu Ciubotariu SJ in Studia Theologica, 2008 Church and State Today: What Belongs to Caesar, and What Doesn't By Archbishop Charles Chaput in Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, 2008 Beyond Collegiality: The Local Church Left Behind by the Second Vatican Council By Gilles Routhier, Universite Laval, Quebec, in CTSA Proceedings, 2007 Does the Church Deliver? Perceptions amongst South Africans about the Role of the Church in the HIV/AIDS Field By P J van Dyk & A C van Dyk, University of South Africa, in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2007 The Church in the World Today By Therese Carroll RSJ in Australian EJournal of Theology, 2007 To Dare More Democracy within the Church By Johannes Roser in Christ in der Gegenwart, 2007 Human Resources Management for Church Ministry By Sharon Messina in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2007 'International Priests' and the Mission of the Church By Richard Lennan in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Summer 2007 From Oxford to Rome: Newman's Ecclesial Conversion By Walter E. Conn in Theological Studies, September 2007 The "Catholic Church" Subsists in the "Catholic Church" By Peter Knauer in The Way, 2006 Response to Karl Becker, S.J., on the Meaning of "Subsistit in" By Francis A. Sullivan in Theological Studies, June 2006 Church in Democracy By Hans Maier in Stimmen der Zeit, 2006 Cultural Diversity and Religious Pluralism: The Church's Mission in Asia By Peter C. Phan in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2006 An Ecclesiology of Groaning: Augustine, the Psalms, and the Making of Church By Michael C. McCarthy in Theological Studies, March 2005 The Holy Spirit in the Church Fulcrum Conference Address by Anglican Bishop Tom Wright , 2005 We are Church - A Kindom of Priests By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, 2005 Church and Culture: A Religio-Theological Perspective By P.J. van der Merwe in HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2005 The People of God: An Orthodox Perspective By George C. Papademetriou of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, 2005 A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in an Ecclesiological Context By Neil Ormerod in Theological Studies, December 2005 Caesar's Coin: How Should Church And State Interact? Archbishop Roland Minnerath Bringing African Culture into the Church By Buti Tlhagale A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in an Ecclesiological Context By Neil Ormerod in Theological Studies, December 2005 Belonging, Community, and the Church: Some Theological and Pastoral Reflections By Vincent Battaglia in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2005 The Trinity's First Creation the Church: An Orthodox Bishop's Appreciation of the West's Greatest Father of the Church By Lawrence Cross in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2005 The Church as Agent of Hope: What can Religious Faith Contribute to Life in Contemporary Australia? By Mark Raper SJ in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2005 Journeying to the Other Side: Beyond Previously Accepted Boundaries By Antoinette Gutzler, M.M. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2005 My Vision for the Church By Benedict XVI in Catholic Update, 2005 Messianic Nation: A Christian Theological Critique of American Exceptionalism By William T. Cavanaugh in University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 2005 Cultural Influences on the Development of Early Church Structures: Implications for Contextual Ecclesiology By Michael T. Cooper in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2004 Revitalizing the Small Church: A Spiritual Model By Terri Birkett in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2004 The Upside Down Church Linda M. Cannell in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2004 What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?: Establishing the Church in the [African] Society By Emeka Obiezu, OSA Victor People By Douglas Knight in Studia Theologica, 2004 Models of the Church By Dănuţ Mănăstireanu in Studia Theologica, 2004 Millstones amid Milestones By Jojo M. Fung, S.J. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2004 Two There Are, Your Holiness: Suggestion for the Next Pope's Agenda in Line with John Paul II's Invitation in Ut Unum Sint By Aloysius Pieris, S.J. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2004 A Eucharistic Church By Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, in America, December 20, 2004 The Church and International Order By Renato Cardinal Martino in Ave Maria Law Review, 2004 The Final Frontier - The Armchair Pilgrims' Guide to Online Shrines By Ian Elmer, lecturer in New Testament Studies at the McAuley Campus of Australian Catholic University, February 2003 Being Church in India Today: Patch, Cloak Fringe, and Divided Clothes of Christ in an Age of Religious Conflict By The Revd Dr Sathianathan Clarke, 2003 Living a Fraternal Communion "One Heart, One Soul" in Our International Community: Mission Impossible? By Jozef Lapauw, CICM, in Chronica, January-February 2003 The Church: Called, Gathered, and Faithful By Friends United Meeting Theological Commission, in Quaker Theology, Fall-Winter 2003 The Internet and the Church of the Future: The Coming of the Fourth Church By John Quinn in The Way, 2003 Issues of Justice, Leadership and Authority in the Church By Cathy Molloy, Research Officer for the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, April 2003 Living in Dark Times By Andrew Murray SM in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2003 A Schizophrenic Process in the Church? The Conservative Retreat from the Social Dimension of the Gospel By Bruce Duncan CSsR in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Summer 2003 The Church in the Post-Postmodern World By Neil Brown in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2003 Issues of Justice, Leadership and Authority in the Church By Cathy Molloy in Working Notes of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, 2003 Structure of a Systematic Ecclesiology By Neil Ormerod in Theological Studies, March 2002 Authority in the Church By Bernard Hoose in Theological Studies, March 2002 New Way of Being Church in Asia By Edmund Chia, FSC, June 2002 Proclamation of the Reign of God as Mission of the Church: What For, To Whom, By Whom, With Whom, and How? By Peter Phan in Theology@McAuley, 2002 Bonaventure and the Sin of the Church By C. Colt Anderson in Theological Studies, December 2002 The Gospel, Church and Culture: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mission, Evangelisation and the Dialogue with Culture By Wayne Tinsey in Theology@McAuley, 2002 The Ratzinger/Kasper Debate: The Universal Church and Local Churches By Kilian McDonnell in Theological Studies, June 2002 The Body of Christ: Saint Symeon the New Theologian on Spiritual Life and the Hierarchical Church By Alexander Golitzin. Given at the International Conference on St. Symeon the New Theologian at Bose, September, 2002 The Essential Nature and Task of the Church By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 2002 The Pneumatological Ekklesia: A Comparative and Constructive Work in Contemporary Ecclesiology By Gene Mills in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, Summer 2002 Church of the Future -- A Sketch for the Jerusalem Symposium By Henry Wansbrough OSB, Oxford University Faculty of Theology, for the Jerusalem Youth Forum, 2002 Is the Church Past Its Use-By Date? Seeking Hope in the Midst of Crisis By Richard Lennan in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Winter 2002 The Sensus Fidelium of the People of God in Asia By Edmund Chia, F.S.C. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2002 Conversion and Discipleship as Goals of the Church's Mission By in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2002 Dominus Iesus: An Ecclesiological Critique By Richard P. McBrien of Notre Dame University, 2001 Scriptural Images of the Church: An Eastern Orthodox Reflection By Alexander Golitzin. Written November 12, 2001, at the request of the Ecclesiology section, Faith and Order, World Council of Churches The Ecclesiology of Vatican II By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2001 The Church in a Postmodern Culture By Laurence Paul Hemming in The Way, 2001 Vocations: How Is God Calling Me? By Fidelis Tracy, C.D.P. in Catholic Update, 2001 How the Spirit Guides the Church: Two Views in Matthew and John By William H. Shannon in Catholic Update, 2001 Localization Resisting Globalization: Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) in the Postmodern Era By Karl M. Gaspar, C.Ss.R. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2001 Communion Ecclesiology and Black Liberation Theology By Jamie T. Phelps in Theological Studies, December 2000 The Place of Silencing in the Teaching of the Church By Jeannine Gramick, SSND, at Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA, Sept 2000 The Church the Body of Christ By Christos Sp. Voulgaris, Dean of the school of Theology, University of Athens The People Of God: Its Unity And Its Glory The Father George Florovsky Memorial Lecture by Constantine Scouteris. A discussion of John 17:17-24 in the light of patristic thought Embodying the Gospel in Community By Richard Hays in The Mennonite Quarterly Review, October 2000 Ecclesiology as Social Ethics: Introduction By Craig Uffman Ecclesiology as Social Ethics: Calvin on the Church, Discipline and the Advocates of Schism By Craig Uffman Ecclesiology as Social Ethics: Paul, Corinth and the Practice of Holy Discipline By Craig Uffman Ecclesiology as Social Ethics: Paul on the Gospel and Table Fellowship By Craig Uffman The Mission of the Church in Gaudium et spes By Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, in Mission of the Church, 2000 The Ecclesiology of the Constitution on the Church, Vatican II, 'Lumen Gentium' By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The Church as Covenant, Culture, and Communion By Carl F. Starkloff in Theological Studies, September 2000 Ethnicity, Common Good and the Church in Contemporary Africa By Rev. Dr Aquiline Tarimo, SJ, September 2000 Unfinished Encounter: a Note on the Voice and Tone of Ecclesia in Asia By John Manford Prior, SVD in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2000 Taking a Forward Leap: Understanding Proclamation, Church and Unity By Jojo M. Fung, S.J. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2000 The Place of the Local Church in the Liberation/Inculturation Debate: The Infanta Prelature Experience By Sophia Marriage in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2000 Ecclesia in Asia: Challenges for Asian Christianity By Peter C. Phan in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2000 The Concept of the Church According to David Yonggi Cho By Sutrisna Widjaja in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2000 Discovering the Face of Jesus in Asia Today From the Office of Human Development of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, 1999. Many sections of this document deal with the church Six Ways to Be Truly Catholic By Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. in St. Anthony Messenger, June 1999 Henri De Lubac and the Roots of Communion Ecclesiology By Dennis M. Doyle in Theological Studies, June 1999 Church and State By Donald X. Burt, OSA. Chapter 11 of Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy, 1999 The Oxford Movement and the 19th-Century Episcopal Church: Anglo-Catholic Ecclesiology and the American Experience By Larry Crockett in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, August 1999 The Church as Sacrament: Towards an Ecclesial Spirituality By Richard R. Gaillardetz in The Way, 1999 Christ's Spirit as Empowerment of the Church-as-Family By Laurenti Magesa in The Model of "Church-as-Family": Meeting the African Challenge, CUEA Publications, 1999 Turning 20, Embracing Dialogue:New Ways of Being Church By Edmund Chia in Inter-Religio, 1999 The Church as a Communion of Faith Letter of Leobard D'Souza, Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur, India, February 1998 Augustine on Marriage, Monasticism, and the Community of the Church By Willemien Otten in Theological Studies, September 1998 The Theological Locus of Ecclesial Movements By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in Communio, Fall 1998 The Transformative Mission of the Church in the Thought of Gregory Baum By Rebecca McKenna in Theological Studies, December 1998 Should the Church Repent? By Avery Dulles, SJ, in First Things, December 1998 I Am the Catholic Church By Father Michael Gilligan Bishop Reinhold Stecher's November 1997 Letter The thoughts of the bishop of Innsbruck concerning the Roman document, Instruction on Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of [the] Priest Journet, Congar, and the Roots of Communion Ecclesiology By Dennis M. Doyle in Theological Studies, September 1997 Church as Structure and Communitas: Victor Turner and Ecclesiology By Carl F. Starkloff in Theological Studies, December 1997 Charisms, Movements and Communities in the Church Four texts: "The Rise of Catholic Movements: Know Them by Their Fruits," Jean Vanier; "Neo-Pentecostalism: A Pastoral Response," the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India; "The Renewal of Christian Life as Charism of the Spirit: Guidelines for the Renewal of Catholic Charismatic Movements," the Indonesian Bishops' Conference; "Communion and Mission: A Guide on Small Church Communities," a statement by the United States National Conference of Catholic Bishops The Catholic Identity of Catholic Institutions By Charles E. Curran in Theological Studies, March 1997 The Common and the Ordained Priesthood By David Coffey in Theological Studies, June 1997 The Vocation of Christianity in a Conflictual World By Charles C. West of Princeton Theological Seminary. Chapter 10 of the book Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity And Ethnic Conflicts, 1997 The New Tension Between Individual and Community in Christ: 'Community' in the Work of Hans Urs Von Balthasar By Fr. Bevil Bramwell, OMI, Ave Maria University The New Ecclesiology of Vatican II By Walbert Bühlmann, OFM (Cap.), 1996 Church and the Sea of Life: Ship or Lifeboat? By Mark Muldoon in The Way, 1996 Church and the Sea of Life: Ship or Lifeboat? By Caroline Dawson in The Way, 1996 Church and the Sea of Life: Ship or Lifeboat? By John Veltri in The Way, 1996 Mohler, Schleiermacher, and the Roots of Communion Ecclesiology By Dennis M. Doyle in Theological Studies, September 1996 Freedom in the Church: Conflicting Horizons By Jacqueline Hawkins in The Way, 1995 The Church in the Catechism of the Catholic Church A Guide prepared by Gerald Darring Irretrievable Breakdown? Disestablishment and the Church of England By Julian Rivers in Cambridge Papers, December 1994 Lear and the Future of the Church By John Pridmore in The Way, 1994 Inculturation in the FABC Documents By Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 1994 Church of the Poor: The Ecclesiology of Gustavo Gutiérrez By James B. Nickoloff in Theological Studies, September 1993 Do We Believe in a Church of Sinners? By Kevin T. Kelly in The Way, 1993 Changing My Mind about the Changeable Church By Richard A. McCormick, S.J. in the Christian Century The Church of Jesus Christ Mennonite Confesion of Faith; Article 9 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 1, Section 2 Article 9 -- I believe in the holy Catholic Church Three Dimensions to the 'Koinonia' of the Holy Spirit Extract from Chapter 2 of 'How to be a Local Church' by John Cole 1992 Being 'Church' By Sue King in The Way, 1992 A Holy People By Siegfried Wiedenhofer in The Way, 1992 The Idea of The Church Father Paul McPartlan The Church in the Nicene Creed Article discussing the section of the Nicene Creed dealing with the church Ecclesiology and Ethics in 1 Corinthians By Richard B. Hays in Ex Auditu Vatican Response to the New Religious Movements By John A. Saliba in Theological Studies, March 1992 Organizing the People of God: Social-Science Theories of Organization in Ecclesiology By Clare Watkins in Theological Studies, December 1991 Rethinking Church Models through Scripture By Walter Brueggemann in Theology Today, 1991 Discipleship as a Craft, Church as a Disciplined Community By Stanley Hauerwas in The Christian Century, October 1, 1991 Rekindling Hope By Gibson Winter in The Way, 1991 Confession and Community: An Israel-like View of the Church By George Lindbeck in The Christian Century, May 9, 1990 The Church: Local and Universal A Study Document Commissioned and Received by the Joint Working Group of the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches, August 1990 The Church as Koinonia: A Central Theme of Vatican II By Peter Neuner in The Way, 1990 Formation and the Koinonia Church By Vicky Cosstick in The Way, 1990 Reform and Renewal: Signs of Life and Growth in the Church Homily Model by Ingrid Shafer for Matthew 21: 28-32 On the History and Significance of "Subsistit in" in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium By Br. Alexis Bugnolo The Consensus of the Church: Differing Classic Views By Richard F. Costigan in Theological Studies, March 1990 A Half Century of Ecclesiology By Avery Dulles in Theological Studies, September 1989 The Pastoral Office in the Early Church By Carl A. Volz in Word & World, 1989 Ecclesiology I: Differing Gifts By Ellen Leonard in The Way, 1989 Ecclesiology II: Differing Responses to Mission By Ellen Leonard in The Way, 1989 Faith and Cultures: Challenges to a World Church By Robert J. Schreiter in Theological Studies, 1989 We Are God's Priestly People Pastoral letter by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, 1988 The Mission of the Church in the Theology of the Social Gospel By Roger Haight in Theological Studies, September 1988 Communion Ecclesiology and Baptism in the Spirit: Tertullian and the Early Church By Kilian McDonnell in Theological Studies, December 1988 Forms of Ecclesiality: The Analogical Church By T. Howland Sanks in Theological Studies, December 1988 Infallibility and Church Authority: The Spirit's Gift to the Whole Church By Kenneth R. Overberg, S.J. in Catholic Update, 1988 The Church: Community of the Holy Spirit By John H. Wright in Theological Studies, March 1987 The Integration of Spiritual and Temporal: Contemporary Roman Catholic Church-State Theory By Leslie Griffin in Theological Studies, June 1987 A Radical Church? A Reappraisal of Anabaptist Ecclesiology By John E. Colwell, Pastor of King's Church, Catford, in Tyndale Bulletin, 1987 The Church's Treasures (Thesauri Ecclesiae) Then and Now By Carl J. Peter in Theological Studies, June 1986 Showing the Body: Reflections on 1 Corinthians 12-13 for Epiphany By Dennis Ormseth in Word & World, 1986 A Church to Come Home To Chapter 10 of Ingrid H. Shafer, Eros and the Womanliness of God: Andrew Greeley's Romances of Renewal, Loyola University Press, 1986 Conflict Within the Church By Jon Sobrino in The Way, 1986 Not Peace but the Sword By John Dalrymple in The Way, 1986 The Mystery of the Church Chapter 8 of the electronic edition of the New Edition (1985) of Andrew M. Greeley's The Great Mysteries: An Essential Catechism The Identity and Purpose of the Church By Paul D. Hanson in Theology Today, 1985 John Peter Olivi and Papal Inerrancy: On a Recent Interpretation of Olivi's Ecclesiology By Brian Tierney in Theological Studies, June 1985 Basic Ecclesial Communities: A Meeting Point of Ecclesiologies By Marcello de C. Azevedo in Theological Studies, December 1985 What Does It Mean to 'Be Church'? By Greg Friedman, O.F.M. in Catholic Update, 1985 Infallibility in the Ecclesiology of Peter Richard Kenrick By Paul K. Hennessy in Theological Studies, December 1984 Faith, Church, and God: Insights from Michael Polanyi By Avery Dulles in Theological Studies, September 1984 Episcopal Collegiality and Papal Primacy in the Pre-Vatican I American Church By Paul K. Hennessy in Theological Studies, June 1983 Graced Communities: A Problem in Loving By Frank M. Oppenheim in Theological Studies, December 1983 Canon Law and Ecclesiology II: The Ecclesiological Implications of the 1983 Code of Canon Law By Clarence Gallagher in The Way, 1983 His Mercy Endures for Ever By Ladislas Örsy in The Way, 1983 The Emerging Church By Rosemary Haughton in The Way, 1983 The Church and Powerlessness By Austin Smith in The Way, 1983 Ecclesiology and the Problem of the One and the Many By Joseph A. Bracken in Theological Studies, June 1982 The Church's Religious Identity and Its Social and Political Mission By Francis Schussler Fiorenza in Theological Studies, June 1982 The Christian Church and the New Religious Movements: Towards Theological Understanding By John A. Saliba in Theological Studies, September 1982 Canon Law and Ecclesiology I By Clarence Gallagher in The Way, 1982 German Historicism and the Changing Image of the Church, 1780-1820 By Donald J. Dietrich in Theological Studies, March 1981 Infallibility: Rapprochement between Kung and the Official Church? By Peter Chirico in Theological Studies, December 1981 A Church for the Poor and the World: At Issue with Moltmann's Ecclesiology By Martin Tripole in Theological Studies, December 1981 Orthodox Ecclesiology in Outline By George Dion Dragas, University of Durham, in Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1981 Priesthood, Kingship, and Prophecy By Joseph H. Crehan in Theological Studies, June 1981 The Church: Catholic and Ecumenical By Bernard J. Cooke in Theology Today, 1979 Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church By the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Theological Studies, March 1979 Different Ways: Basic Christian Communion By David Clark in The Way, 1979 The Church Yesterday and Today By Michael A. Fahey in The Way, 1979 The Breath of the Spirit and the Freedom of the Church By M. J. Le Guillou in The Way, 1979 The Emerging Church: Chaos or Incarnation By George B. Wilson in The Way, 1979 Philosophical Models in Ecclesiology By Thomas F. O'Meara in Theological Studies, March 1978 Dynamics of Change in the Church's Self-Understanding By Peter Chirico in Theological Studies, March 1978 We Are His People Pastoral letter by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, 1978 "Humanae vitae" and Its Reception: Ecclesiological Reflections By Joseph Komonchak in Theological Studies, June 1978 Contraception and the Infallibility of the Ordinary Magisterium By John C. Ford and Germain Grisez in Theological Studies, June 1978 Providence and the Church By Joseph Gavin in The Way, 1978 A Place called Community By Parker J. Palmer in The Christian Century, March 16, 1977 Liberation Ecclesiology: Praxis, Theory, Praxis By T. Howland Sanks and Brian H. Smith in Theological Studies, March 1977 A Changing Ecclesiology in a Changing Church: A Symposium on Development in the Ecclesiology of Karl Rahner By J. Peter Schineller, Leo J. O'Donovan, John P. Galvin, and Michael A. Fahey in Theological Studies, December 1977 Office and Charism: Reflections on a New Study of Ministry By Edward J. Kilmartin in Theological Studies, September 1977 Christ and Church: A Spectrum of Views By J. Peter Schineller in Theological Studies, December 1976 Mission: The Symbol for Understanding the Church Today By Roger Haight in Theological Studies, December 1976 Comments on Roger D. Haight's Article By Robert T. Sears in Theological Studies, December 1976 Trinitarian Love as Ground of the Church By Robert T. Sears, with comments by Roger Haight, in Theological Studies, December 1976 Comments on Robert T. Sear's Article By Roger Haight in Theological Studies, December 1976 Catholicism as a Protestantism By John A. Miles, Jr. in Theology Today, 1976 Apostolic Office: Sacrament of Christ By Edward J. Kilmartin in Theological Studies, June 1975 Pluralism and Ecclesial Unity By James Quinn in The Way, 1975 Ministry in the Church By Gregory Baum, 1974 Continuity in the Church amid Structural Changes By Michael A. Fahey in Theological Studies, September 1974 The Benighted Church By P. G. Walsh in The Way, 1974 The Foundation of the Church: Biblical Criticism for Ecumenical Discussion By Aelred Cody in Theological Studies, March 1973 Ecclesiological Developments in Moltmann's Theology of Hope By Martin Tripole in Theological Studies, March 1973 Pope Leo XIII and "Americanism" By Margaret Mary Reher in Theological Studies, December 1973 Justice in the Church By Edward Stokes in The Way, 1973 The Cross and the Church By Simon Tugwell in The Way, 1973 Political Ecclesiology By Bernard F. Donahue in Theological Studies, June 1972 The Church, the Churches, and the Catholic Church By Avery Dulles in Theological Studies, June 1972 Paradoxes of Human Hope: The Messianic Horizon of Church and Society By Rosemary Radford Ruether in Theological Studies, June 1972 Diakonia, the Mission of the Church By Mary Louise Norpel in The Way, 1972 The Church as Eschatological Community By Avery Dulles in The Eschaton: A Community of Love, 1971 Motherhood of the Entire Church By Henri de Lubac, 1971 The Church as Eschatological Community Avery Dulles in The Eschaton: A Community of Love, 1971 Is there a distinct American contribution to the notion of Church? By Richard P. McBrien in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1971 Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology By J. Robert Nelson in Theological Studies, December 1970 Martin Luther and the Mission of the Church By Charles Chaney in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Winter 1970 Church and State By George Bull in The Way, 1970 Does Morality Call for the Church? By Gregory Baum in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1970 Does Liturgy Call for the Church? By Kilian McDonnell in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1970 Does Faith Call for the Church? By Carl J. Peter in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1970 The Church Today: Its Necessity and Role By Richard P. McBrien in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1970 Faith and the Church: A Reply to the Critique By Carl J. Peter in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1970 The Catholic Understanding of Office in the Church By E. Schillebeeckx in Theological Studies, December 1969 Dialogue in Ecclesiology By Sabbas J. Kilian in Theological Studies, March 1969 The Lutheran Doctrine of the Ministry: Catholic and Reformed By George A. Lindbeck in Theological Studies, December 1969 An Analysis of the Roman Catholic Congress on the Theology of Renewal in the Church By Charles A. Tipp, M.A., B.D. in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Winter 1969 The Ecclesiological Product of the Ecumenical Movement By Michael Pocock, Th.M., in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Summer 1969 The Crucified Church By Michael Ivens in The Way, 1969 Church and Kingdom: Ecclesiology in the Light of Eschatology By John C. Haughey in Theological Studies, March, 1968 Church and History in Vatican II's Constitution on the Church: A Protestant Perspective By Manfred Hoffmann in Theological Studies, June 1968 Ecclesial Cybernetics: Communication in the Church By Patrick Granfield in Theological Studies, December 1968 Authority, Connatural Knowledge, and the Spontaneous Judgment of the Faithful By John W. 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