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Liturgical Press
- A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Liturgical Press
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Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, changed how the church thinks about the laity, holiness, baptism, and even the nature and purpose of the church itself. In A Council That Will Never End, the highly regarded ecclesiologist Paul Lakeland marks the fiftieth anniversary of this document's promulgation by taking up three major themes of the constitution, analyzing the text, and identifying some of the questions with which it leaves us. These themes are ·the role of the bishop in the church and the ways Lumen Gentium's teaching relates to various tensions in today's church ·the laity and in particular the mixed blessing of describing them in the category of "secularity" ·and the relationships between the church and the people of God and what they tell us about the ways in which all people are offered salvation.Lakeland is convinced that Lumen Gentium leaves much unfinished business (as any historical document must), that attending to it will take us beyond much of the now sterile ecclesial divisions, and that the ecclesiology of humility it implies marks the way that theology must guide the church in the years ahead.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iii
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction: The Unfinished Business of Lumen Gentium
- pp. xiii-xxxiii
- Chapter 5: Vocation in the Church
- pp. 74-87
- Chapter 7: Salvation and the Religious Other
- pp. 103-117
- Chapter 8: Who Is My Neighbor?
- pp. 118-133
- Chapter 9: An Ecclesiology of Humility
- pp. 134-154
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814680919
Related ISBN(s)
9780814680667
MARC Record
OCLC
966883679
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No