Preface |
ix |
Part I: Analysis of the situation (see) |
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introduction |
1 |
chapter 1. A Diagnosis of Today's Church |
5 |
1. Diagnosis of a Church historian |
6 |
2. Diagnosis of a sociologist |
8 |
3. Diagnosis of a social psychologist |
13 |
4. Diagnosis of a feminist author |
14 |
5. Diagnosis of a missiologist |
16 |
6. Arriving at a comprehensive diagnosis |
18 |
Part II: Drawing up a framework (judge) |
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chapter 2. Jesus and the church |
25 |
1. Deconstruction: Jesus "instituted" |
27 |
2. Reconstruction: Jesus and the Church |
30 |
a. First stage: Jesus of Nazareth |
30 |
b. Second stage: The community led by Jesus' Spirit |
34 |
3. Church and Mission |
35 |
a. First stage: Jesus of Nazareth |
36 |
b. Second stage: Paul |
36 |
4. A community of disciples |
41 |
Chapter 3. Vantican II: A New Trajectory |
43 |
1. The three ecclesiologies of Vatican II |
44 |
a. Society |
45 |
b. People |
46 |
c. Servant |
47 |
2. a juxtaposition of two worldviews |
49 |
a. A dualistic worldview |
49 |
b. A historical worldview |
53 |
3. Choosing a single perspective |
56 |
4. Dreams of the future |
58 |
Chapter 4. The Post-Vantican II Church: Mission or Restoration |
61 |
1. The tensions of Vatican II Council |
61 |
2. The papacy of Paul VI (1963-78) |
64 |
3. The coming of the Third Church |
65 |
4. John-Paul II (1978- ) |
68 |
5. The extraordinary Synod (1985) |
72 |
̉̉̉6. Small is beautiful |
73 |
Chapter 5. A Testcase: The One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church |
79 |
1. The origin of the four attributes |
79 |
2. Roman Chatholic Apologetics |
81 |
3. Gift, task, and promise |
84 |
a. The Church is one |
86 |
b. The Church is catholic |
87 |
c. The Church is holy |
88 |
d. The Church is apostolic |
90 |
e. The eschatological component |
91 |
Chapter 6. The Papacy: Rock of Stumbling Block |
95 |
1. The beginning of the papacy |
95 |
2. The consolidation of papal primacy |
101 |
3. Three stumbling blocks |
105 |
a. Divine instituition |
105 |
b. Primacy of jurisdiction |
108 |
c. Infallibility |
110 |
4. Mornach of fellow bishop and ecumenical pastor? |
113 |
Part III: Toward a pastoral and Missionary praxis (act) |
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introduction |
117 |
Chapter 7. Mission in Today's Situation |
121 |
1. From planting to dialogue |
122 |
2. A missionary agenda |
124 |
3. A renewed Church: BECs and ministries |
126 |
a. Centers of evangelization withing a Church fellowship |
128 |
b. Renewal of the Church institution |
130 |
c. The Poor |
130 |
d. Service to the world |
131 |
4. A renewed mission |
132 |
Conclusion: To see, To Judge, To Act |
141 |