| 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 |