| Communion of the saints Foundation, Nature, and Structure of the Church |
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| Introduction: "Credo Ecclesiam" |
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| The position of the Church in the Creed Christology or Pneumatology as the point of departure for Ecclesiology |
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| The position meaning of " Credo Ecclesiam" |
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| Frist Part: fundamental Ecclesial directions in the New Testament |
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| Fundamental concepts of the Church's Self-Understanding |
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| Ekklesia-The Church of God |
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| The Church as the Body of Christ |
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| The Phrase "Body of Christ" in Paul |
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| The Phrase " Body of Christ" in the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians |
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| The Church as Temple of God or the Temple of the Holy Spirit |
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| Jesus and the Church Jesus Proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the Church that Arose after the Events of Eater/Pentecost |
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| Sketch or the Problematic |
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| Overview of the different position of Researchers |
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| The "new consensus" and its decline |
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| Positions within Catholic Theology |
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| Analysis and reflection |
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| Jesus ' proclamation of the Kingdom of God |
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| Jesus' farewell meal |
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| Additional observations |
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| The Church, "Built on the Foundation of the Apostles" |
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| The term "apostles" the "Twelve Apostles" |
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| The Missionary commissioning of the Apostles by the Risen One |
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| Clarification od the missionary commissioning through the Apostles' Practice |
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| Paul and his communities |
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| Apostles anf communitiy in the Acts of the Apostles |
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| Conclusion |
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| The Organization of the Church in Its Successive Developmental Stages; Community Structures in the New Testament |
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| Preliminary remark in the problematic |
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| The Pauline Communities during Paul's lifetime |
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| The charisms in the community |
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| The role of those who minister to the community |
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| community structures in the Acts of the Apostles |
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| The Jerusalem Community |
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| The Community in Antioch |
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| Community structures at the time of the composition og the Acts of the Apostles |
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| Community organization in the Post-Apostolic New Testament Period |
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| In the Sphere of the Pauline Communities |
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| In the Petrine Sphere |
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| In the Johanine Sphere |
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| Conclusion and remaning problems |
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| Conclusion |
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| Remaning problems |
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| Excursus the Apostolic Succession |
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| The transition to the Monarchical Bishop |
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| Apostolic Tradition-Apostolic Succession |
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| Conclusion |
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| Peter in the New Testament |
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| The Common Tradiotion concerning Peter |
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| Special status in the Tradition of Matthew's Gospel |
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| Peter as the Rock on which Christ will Build his Church |
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| The Construction of the Church and its endurance |
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| The Giving of the keys and the power to bind and to Loose |
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| Complementary Text Luke 22;31; John 21:15-19; and the Petrine Letters |
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| Conclusion and reflection |
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| Second part |
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| The nature of the Church and Its Essential Characteristics |
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| Essential Element in a Theological description of the Church |
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| The Church as the Fruit of Salvation and the Means to Salvation |
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| Fundamental concepts of the Nature of the Church |
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| The Church as a Society |
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| The Church as the Body of Christ |
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| The Church as Sacrament |
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| The Ecumenical problem |
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| The Church as the Communion of the Faithful |
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| Koinoia and the people of God |
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| The Church as Communio |
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| The Church as the people of God |
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| Church and Eucharist |
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| The Church realizes Itself in the Celebration of the Eucharist |
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| The universal Church as the Koinonia of the Local Churches |
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| The Problem of communion in the means of salvation |
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| The one Church and the many Churches |
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| Different models of unity |
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| The relation of the Catholic Church to the Church of Christ |
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| The significance of the Other Churches and Their traditions for the Catholicity of the Church on the expression Catholic |
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| Church membership or tho be in communion with the Church |
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| The problem of Church membership before Vatican II |
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| The Emphasis on Baptism by Vaticano II |
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| The necessity of the Church for salvation |
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| The historical meaning of the sentence Extra ecclesiam nulla salus |
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| Theological reflection |
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| A pilgrim Church |
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| Ecclesia semper reformanda |
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| A sinful Church |
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| Conclusion |
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| The Church is oriented toward the Eschatological Kingdom of God |
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| Third Part The structures of the Church |
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| Community and office |
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| The teaching of Lumen gentium |
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| The priesthood of all believers |
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| The sense of the faithful and the Charisms of the Christian people |
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| The cumenical problem |
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| The orthodox position |
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| The position of the reformation |
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| Theological reflection |
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| Foundations |
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| Sharing in Christ' Priestly office |
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| Sharing in Christ' Prophetic office |
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| Sensus fidelium and the teaching office |
150 |
| Laity and offcials in the proclamation of the word |
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| Summarizing thesis |
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| All members of the Church are responsible |
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| Toward a theology of the Laity |
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| The Hierachical composition of the Church |
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| The bishop with His-workers |
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| The presbytes and deacons |
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| The teaching of Lumen gentium |
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| The bishop as the successors to the Apostles |
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| The sacramentality of the Bishop's office |
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| The distinction between bishop and presbyter |
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| The Ecumenical problem: The position of the reformation |
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| Theological reflection |
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| The Foundation of the Catholic Thesis |
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| The bishop as the successors to the Apostles |
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| The designation successors to the Apostles |
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| The later development and its significance for the distinction between bishop and presbyters |
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| The function of bishops |
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| The teaching offfice of the bishops |
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| Foundation of the task of the teaching office |
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| The Ecumenical problem the reformation's position |
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| Additionas remarks |
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| The relation between the teaching office and the community |
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| Infallibility or indefectibility? |
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| The incontrovertibility of Dogmatic formulations |
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| Apostolic Succession |
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| The office of the pope and the collegiality of Bishops |
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| Toward a statement of the question |
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| The Catholic teaching |
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| The Dogmatic constitution Pator aetenus of Vatican I |
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| The primacy of Jurisdiction |
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| The infallible teaching office of the Pope |
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| The Dogmatic constitution Lumen gentium of Vatican II |
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| Problem of the other Churches |
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| Problem of the Lutheran Churches |
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| The Church's historical understanding of primacy and the collegiality of bishop down to the split between East and West |
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| The martyrdoms of Peter and Paul in Rome as the foundation for the Preeminence of Rome in the Earliest Testimonies |
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| The invocation by the Roman Bishops of the Pertrine Texts |
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| The unity of the Church as a Koinonia of the Churches and the role of Rome within such a conception |
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| Rome's role in the understanding of the Eastern Churches |
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| The example of the council of Chalcedon |
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| Express recognition of the role of Roma on the part of the Eastern bishops |
216 |
| Theological reflection |
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| A theological legitimation of primacy |
219 |
| Primacy within the Framework of Collegiality |
220 |
| Toward a theology of the Local Churches |
223 |
| Fourth part The mission and task of the Church |
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| Evangeliaztion and its implications |
235 |
| Toward a statement of the question |
235 |
| The mission of the Church according to the office documents |
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| Vatican II |
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| Post-conciliar documents |
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| Theological reflection |
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| Conclusion theses |
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| Church and Word |
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| Presentation of the problematic |
253 |
| Biblical perspectives |
255 |
| Sense and significance of the World |
256 |
| The Church accoding to God's Eternal plan |
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| Systematic reflection |
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| The dialectial tension between Church and World as a fundamental Theological perspective |
258 |
| The Church as sacramet for the World |
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| The World in its Twofold meaning |
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| The help which the Church receives from the modern world |
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| List of Abbreviations |
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