Preface |
1 |
1. The Ministry of Jesus |
3 |
1. The Characteristics of Jesus’ Own Ministry |
4 |
2. A Description of the Message of the Earthly Ministry of Jesus |
15 |
3. A Description of the Ministry of the Risen Jesus |
24 |
4. Summary |
28 |
2. An Ecclesiological Presupposition |
30 |
1. Jesus Established a Church in a Fairly Detailed Way |
32 |
2. The Church Dates from the Resurrection |
33 |
3. Summary |
38 |
3. Ministry: 21 to 110 A.D. |
40 |
1. The New Testament Churches |
41 |
2. Presbyter and Episkopos |
44 |
3. The Twelve and the Apostles |
53 |
4. Prophet and Teacher |
65 |
5. Deacon |
67 |
6. The Other Titles of Ministry |
70 |
7. The New Testament and the Issue of Ordination |
70 |
8. The Ministry of the Episkopos at Rome |
75 |
9. The Eucharist and Its Relationship to New Testament Ministry |
77 |
10. Apostolic Succession |
81 |
11. Summary |
83 |
and the Ordination of Women |
86 |
4. Ministry in the Second Christian Century: 90 to 210 A.D. |
89 |
1. The Naming and Function of Christian Ministry |
91 |
2. Ordination to Ministry |
119 |
5. Ministry in the High Patristic Church: 210 to 600 A.D. |
130 |
1. Theological Development of Apostolic Succession |
131 |
2. A Process of Increased Clericalization |
145 |
3. A Process of Theologizing |
148 |
4.A Process of Increased Ministerial Diversification |
155 |
5. The interrelationship of These Various Processes |
159 |
6. Ministry in the Early Medieval Church: 600 to 1000 A D. |
161 |
1. The Division of the Eastern and Western Christian Churches |
163 |
2. The Frankish Structuring of Ministry |
169 |
3. The Papal Structuring of Ministry |
179 |
4. Other Factors Bearing on the Issue of Ordained Ministry |
188 |
5. Summary |
192 |
Minor Orders—An Historical Survey |
195 |
7. Ministry in the Scholastic Period: 1000 to 1400 A. D. |
200 |
1. The Number of Sacred Orders |
202 |
2. The Definition of the Sacrament of Order |
204 |
3. The Sacrament of Order and Ecclesiology |
212 |
4. Jesus and the Sacrament of Order |
216 |
8. Ministry in the Theology of the Reformers |
219 |
1. Martin Luther and the Lutheran Theology of Ministry |
221 |
2. Ministry in John Calvin’s Theology |
239 |
9. The Sacrament of Order and the Council of Trent |
248 |
1. The Preliminary Draft on the Sacrament of Order |
248 |
2. The Doctrinal/Pastoral Statement on Order |
252 |
3. The Canons |
264 |
4. An Overview of the Tridentine Teaching on the Sacrament of Order. |
274 |
10. The Sacrament of Order in Counter-Reformation Theology |
280 |
1. St. Robert Bellarmme and His Presentation of the Sacrament of Holy Order |
281 |
2.Jean-Jacques Olier and His Theology of the Sacrament of Order |
285 |
3. Other Significant Catholic Scholarship on the Sacrament |
288 |
4. Roman Statements on the Priesthood in the Counter- |
293 |
Period and Its Theological Presentation of the Sacrament of Order |
303 |
11. Ministry in the Documents of Vatican II |
307 |
1. History of the Document on Episcopal and Priestly Ministry |
308 |
2. Major Structures of Ordained and Non-Ordained Ministry |
315 |
Substantive Way |
324 |
4. Unfinished Agenda from Vatican II |
337 |
12. Christian Ministry in an Ecumenical Perspective |
343 |
Churches from the Roman Church |
344 |
Church and the Anglican Church |
347 |
Protestant Churches |
349 |
4. The Issue of the Ordination of Women |
353 |
Notss |
356 |
Index of Authors |
381 |