| 1. A New Experience of Church |
1 |
| The Basic Church Community |
1 |
| "Building a Living Church" |
3 |
| Institutional and Communitarian Elemants of the Church in Coexistence |
6 |
| 2. Church, or Merely Ecclesial Elements? |
10 |
| Differing Opinions |
11 |
| Routes to a Broader Understanding of the Ecclesiality of the Basic Communities: A Reflection |
15 |
| 3. The Reinvention of the Church |
23 |
| Ways of Being Church |
23 |
| Growing beyond Current Church Structure |
30 |
| 4. An Oppressed People Organizing for Liberation |
34 |
| First Steps |
34 |
| "Survivors of the Great Period of Trial" |
36 |
| Obstacles to Understanding Basic Church Communities |
37 |
| The Church: An Oppressed People Organizing for Liberation |
40 |
| The New Barbarians |
43 |
| 5. Quaestio Disputata I: Did the Historical Jesus Will Only One Institutional Form for the Church |
45 |
| Introduction |
45 |
| Hermeneutical Presuppositions for an Answer |
47 |
| Image of the Church in the "Theology of Tranquillity" |
48 |
| Jesus' Ultimate Intent: Not the Church, but the Kingdom of God |
49 |
| Did Jesus Preach the Kingdom of God or the Church? |
51 |
| Death and Resurrection of Christ: Sine Qua Non for the Existence of the Church |
55 |
| A Church Founded be Christ and by Apostles Moved by the Spirit |
58 |
| The Kinhdom Comes to Us via the Church |
59 |
| Consequences for a Possoble Ecclesiogenesis |
59 |
| 6. Quaestion Disputata II: The Lay Coordinator anh the Celebration of the Lord's Supper |
61 |
| Theological Challenges of a Practice of Celebration |
61 |
| Possible Theological Responses |
63 |
| The Coordinator as Extraordinary Minister of the Lord's Supper |
70 |
| Appendix: Celebration of the Lord's Supper in a Basic Community |
73 |
| 7. Quaestion Disputata III: Women's Priesthood and Its Possibilities |
76 |
| Women's Priesthood in a Perspective of Women's Liberation |
76 |
| Jesus: A Man Speaks Up for Women |
79 |
| Disciplinary Prescriptions, Not Theological arguments |
81 |
| Women's Priesthood: Not the same as Men Exercise It Today |
88 |
| Theological Considerations Bearing on Women's Priesthood |
89 |
| The Humen Being, including the Religious Human Being: Animus and Anima |
95 |
| Addendum |
96 |
| Note |
99 |
| Index |
111 |