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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] 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 On the Dynamic Relation Between Ecclesiology and Congregational Studies By Roger Haight and James Nieman in Theological Studies, September 2009 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 Ecumenical Ecclesiology and the Language of Unity By Peter C. Bouteneff in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Summer 2009 Ecumenical Ecclesiology: One Church of Christ for the Sake of the World By Michael Kinnamon in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Summer 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 On the Dynamic Relation between Ecclesiology and Congregational Studies By Roger Haight; James Nieman in Theological Studies, September 2009 Where Is the Church? Globalization and Catholicity By Vincent J. Miller in Theological Studies, June 2008 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 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 in Theological Studies, March 2008 Bonhoeffer's Missional Ecclesiology By Patrick Franklin in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry, vol 9, 2007-2008 Jubilee: A Magazine of the Church and Her People: Toward a Vatican II Ecclesiology By Mary Anne Rivera in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Fall 2007 Beyond Collegiality: The Local Church Left Behind by the Second Vatican Council By Gilles Routhier, Université Laval, Québec, in CTSA Proceedings, 2007 The Priority of Unity in the Mystery of the Church By James Massa in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Fall 2007 Mind the Gap: The Return of the Lay-Clerical Divide By James D. Davidson and Dean R. Hoge in Commonweal, Nov 23, 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 Röser in Christ in der Gegenwart, 2007 Radical Democracy, Radical Ecclesiology By Peter Dula and Alex Sider in Cross Currents, Winter 2006 The “Catholic Church” Subsists in the “Catholic Church” By Peter Knauer in The Way, 2006 Church in Democracy By Hans Maier in Stimmen der Zeit, 2006 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 Caesar's Coin: How Should Church And State Interact? Archbishop Roland Minnerath Bringing African Culture into the Church By Buti Tlhagale Clericalism By Colin Stockford on "Catholics for a Changing Church" 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 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 Sacramentum Unitatis Ecclesiasticae: The Eucharistic Ecclesiology of Henri de Lubac By Lisa Wang in Anglican Theological Review, Winter 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 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 Heresies of Love: Toward a Spirit-Christ Ecclesiology By K. Steve McCormick in Wesley Theological Journal, 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 From Impasse to Passage: The Evolution of Christian Practices and Beliefs By Isabelle Graessle in Ecumenical Review, 2001 The Ecclesiology of Vatican II By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2001 A Cloak of Many Colors: The End of Beige Catholicism: Restoration of Sacramental, Traditional Practices within the Catholic Church By Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, Nov 9, 2001 The Church in a Postmodern Culture By Laurence Paul Hemming in The Way, 2001 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 Church in the Age of the Holy Spirit By John J. McNeill in Cross Currents, Spring-Summer 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 Community in Conversation: Multiple Readings of Scripture and a Wesleyan Understanding of the Church By Richard P. Thompson in Wesley Theological Journal, 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 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 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 Church and the Churches: Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology By Sarah Butler in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Spring 1997 Two Churches: Fixed Menu or A La Carte? By Abigail McCarthy in Commonweal, Jan 31, 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 We, The People—Of God - a Constitution for the Catholic Church By Sidney Callahan in Commonweal, May 9, 1997 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 Why I Love the Church By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, Jan 6, 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 A Catholic in the Cafeteria - What Young People Seek in the Catholic Church By Regina Plunkett Dowling in Commonweal, Sept 10, 1993 'Humanae vitae': What Has It Done to Us? And What Is to Be Done Now? The Catholic Church's Ban on Birth Control By Kenneth Untener in Commonweal, June 18, 1993 Do We Believe in a Church of Sinners? By Kevin T. Kelly in The Way, 1993 What Bishop Might Tell Her People about Encyclical By Rosemary Radford Ruether in National Catholic Reporter, Nov 12, 1993 Communities: New 'Way of Life' By Dawn Gibeau in National Catholic Reporter, August 27, 1993 Church of the Poor: The Ecclesiology of Gustavo Gutierrez By James B. Nickoloff in Theological Studies, September 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 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 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 The Church as a Universal Reform Society: The Social Vision of Asa Mahan By James E. Hamilton in Wesley Theological Journal, 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 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 We Are God's Priestly People Pastoral letter by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, 1988 Law and Gospel, Church and Canon By Robert W. Wall in Wesley Theological Journal, 1987 Toward a Wesleyan Ecclesiology By H. Ray Dunning in Wesley Theological Journal, 1987 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 Orthodox Ecclesiology in Outline By George Dion Dragas, University of Durham, in Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1981 The Church as Holy and Charismatic By Howard A. Snyder in Wesley Theological Journal, 1980 The Church: Catholic and Ecumenical By Bernard J. Cooke in Theology Today, 1979 We Are His People Pastoral letter by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, 1978 A Place called Community By Parker J. Palmer in The Christian Century, March 16, 1977 Catholicism as a Protestantism By John A. Miles, Jr. in Theology Today, 1976 Ministry in the Church By Gregory Baum, 1974 John Wesley's Concept of the Church By J. Duane Beals in Wesley Theological Journal, 1974 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 Martin Luther and the Mission of the Church By Charles Chaney in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Winter 1970 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 Freedom and the Catholic Church By Leonard Swidler in Theology Today, 1964 The Charismatic Element in The Church By Karl Rahner in The Dynamic Element in the Church, 1964 The New Testament View of the Church By Bruce M. Metzger in Theology Today, 1962 The Church and the Catholic Book by Romano Guardini, 1935 Essay on the Unity of the Church: The Church Is One By Alexei Khomiakov. As published in Russia and the English Church during the Last Fifty Years, 1895 The Triple Function of the Church By Cardinal Newman The Paraclete, the Life of the Church A short meditation by Cardinal Newman The People of God Based on the texts of different world scriptures Small Christian Communities The Pastoral Department for Small Christian Communities (SCC) of the Archdiocese of Hartford Small Christian Community Connection A network of people devoted to the formation and support of small Christian communities. Buena Vista has a vision of Church as a community of many diverse communities each reflecting the ecclesial characteristics of community and mutuality (koinonia), scripture (kerygma), service and justice (diakonia), prayer and ritual (leitourgia) |
