Preface |
v |
Acknowledgments |
vii |
Part One: Introductory Chapters |
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Chapter1: Catholic Church Today |
2 |
Chapter 2: Challenges for the Church |
9 |
Chapter 3: The documents of Vatican II |
17 |
Part Two: lumen Gentium: A new self-definition for the Church |
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Section one: the mystery of the Church |
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Chapter 4: the nature and mission of the Church |
28 |
chapter 5: God and the Church |
36 |
Chapter 6: the symbolic character of the Church |
44 |
Section two: the people of God |
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chapter 7: An ecumenical outlook |
54 |
chapter 8: Diversity and divisions within Christianity |
63 |
chapter 9: Ecumenical progress |
72 |
section three: the heirarchical structure of the Church |
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chapter 10: Bishops and the Pope |
82 |
chapter 11: Ordained Priesthood |
92 |
chapter 12: levels of teaching, levels of assent |
101 |
section four: the Laity |
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chapter 13: Lay people |
111 |
chapter 14: Tools for Church renewal |
119 |
chapter 15: a Spirituality of work |
127 |
section five: the universal call to holiness |
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chapter 16: Christian Spirituality |
136 |
chapter 17: breaking the cycle |
144 |
chapter 18: a job description for the Holy Spirit |
154 |
Section Six: Religious |
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chapter 19: religious communities |
164 |
chapter 20: liberation theology and Church Community |
173 |
chapter 21: liberation theology: Critiques and Appraisals |
182 |
section seven: the Eschatolotical nature of the Church |
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chapter 22: the pilgrim Church |
191 |
chapter 23: the meaning of life |
200 |
chapter 24: pilgrims and saints |
208 |
section eight: Mary and the Church |
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chapter 25: Mary as Symbols of the Church |
217 |
chapter 26: Feminism and Christian Tradition |
225 |
Chapter 27: the Ordination of women |
214 |
part three: Gaudium et Spes: the Church engaging the world |
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section one: Church and world |
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chapter 28: the servant Church |
248 |
chapter 29: Atheism and the New Theism |
258 |
chapter 30: Religious Pluralism |
268 |
section two: principles, family culture |
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chapter 31: underlying principles of Catholic Social Teaching |
278 |
chapter 32: marriage and the family |
287 |
chapter 33: culture |
296 |
section three: economics, politics, peace, ecology |
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chapter 34: Economics |
308 |
chapter 35: Peace and Politics |
316 |
chapter 36: ecology |
327 |
Notes |
337 |
Index |
347 |