Creating Communion : The Theology of the Constitutions of the Church

by Markey, John J.

• ISBN13: 9781565481794
• ISBN10: 1565481798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: New City Pr

Summary

As the Church celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, John Markey examines the ecclesiology of communion that emerges from the Council's defining constitutions. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John J. Markey, O.P., is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Barry University in Miami, Florida. He is a Dominican Friar and has his Doctorate in Philosophy and Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. California. He has published articles in America, Review for Religious and others

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(6)
Thomas F. O'Meara
Introduction	15	(3)
The Problem	18	(3)
The Intuitive Grasp of ``Communion'' as a Unifying Theme	21	(1)
Discerning the Genuine Meaning of Communion	22	(3)
The Structure of This Book	25	(2)
Notes	26	(1)
Roman Catholic Theology of the Church Prior to Vatican II	27	(26)
Ecclesiologies Before Vatican II	30	(7)
The Viewpoint of the Counter-Reformation	30	(2)
The Church as a ``Perfect Society'' (Societas Perfecta)	32	(3)
The Spirit-Animated Organism of Mohler and the Tubingen School	35	(2)
Mystici Corporis Christi: Pope Pius XII's Encyclical on the Body of Christ	37	(7)
Central Concerns	38	(1)
Mystical Body as the Primary Metaphor	39	(1)
New Questions	40	(3)
The Impact on Theology	43	(1)
The Ecclesiology of Yves Congar, O.P.	44	(4)
Toward a Deeper Ecclesiology on the Eve of Vatican II: The Church is a Communion by Jerome Hamer, O.P.	48	(5)
Notes	50	(3)
The Ecclesiology of the Constitutions on the Church	53	(47)
An Ecclesiology Out of the Documents	53	(1)
Sacrosanctum Concilium	54	(2)
Lumen Gentium	56	(24)
The Mystery of the Church	58	(2)
The People of God	60	(6)
The Church is Hierarchical	66	(8)
The Laity	74	(1)
The Call to Holiness	75	(2)
Religious	77	(1)
The Pilgrim Church	78	(1)
Our Lady	78	(2)
Summaries of Some Decrees and Declarations Bridging Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes	80	(4)
Unitatis Redintegratio, Christus Dominus, Nostra Aetate and Apostolicam Actuositatem	80	(2)
Dignitatis Humanae	82	(2)
Gaudium et Spes	84	(10)
Title and Preface	85	(1)
Introduction: The Situation of Man in the World Today	86	(1)
Part I: The Church and Man's Vocation	87	(5)
Part II: Some More Urgent Problems	92	(1)
Conclusion	93	(1)
Three Heuristic Keys to the Documents: Three Interrelated Concepts	94	(6)
Theological Foundation: Renewed Pneumatology	95	(1)
Dominant Image: Community	95	(2)
Organizing Concept: Sacramentality	97	(1)
Notes	98	(2)
Understanding the Triad that Creates Communion	100	(70)
Introduction	100	(3)
Part I: The Holy Spirit---The Giver of Life	103	(23)
The Holy Spirit in Scripture	103	(12)
Pneumatology in the Theological Tradition	115	(2)
Pneumatology and Spirituality	117	(2)
Pneumatology and the Charisms	119	(2)
Conclusion: The Work of the Spirit in the Church and the World	121	(3)
Communion Pneumatology	124	(2)
Part II: Community---``Members One of Another''	126	(21)
Understanding the Conditions for Genuine Community: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce	127	(11)
The Three Essential Charisms that Create and Sustain Community	138	(2)
Constituting the Christian Community	140	(2)
Defining the Church of Christ as a Community of Communities	142	(5)
Part III: Sacrament and Sacramentality---The Church as a Sign of the Reign of God	147	(18)
Symbolic Structure of All Reality	148	(2)
Types of Signs	150	(3)
The Chain of Sacramentality and the Catholic World View	153	(2)
Sacrament and the Seven Sacraments	155	(3)
The Special Sacramentality of the Word in the Catholic Tradition	158	(1)
The Church as a Genuine Icon of Christ	159	(2)
The Significance of the Church in the Post-Modern World	161	(4)
Conclusion: Communion and the Pneumatological Principle	165	(5)
Notes	168	(2)
The Church as the Sacrament of Communion for the World	170	(15)
Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes: The Constitutions of the Church in the World	171	(1)
The Church as a ``Sure Seed of Unity, Hope, and Salvation for the Whole Human Race''	171	(2)
The Role of the Church in the Post-Modern and Hyper-Modern World	173	(12)
Notes	184	(1)
Acknowledgments	185