scholarly journals Toward a Pentecostal Understanding of Communio Sanctorum: Reflections on Peter Kuzmič & Miroslav Volf ’s “Theology of the Church as a Fellowship of Persons” in the Context of the Pentecostal-Roman Catholic Dialogue

Kairos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Ciprian Gheorghe-Luca
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Communion Of Saints ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Miroslav Volf ◽  
World Class ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Church

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the Pentecostal understanding of the communion of saints by critically engaging with the ecclesiological vision of two world-class Pentecostal theologians from post-communist countries: Peter Kuzmič and Miroslav Volf. Th e paper has three sections: in the first one, a brief historical and theological overview of the doctrine of communio sanctorum is presented, to both set the stage for the core of the paper, and to point out the usefulness of reflecting on this particular ecclesiological topic. The second section offers an outline of “Perspectives on Koinonia” (the final report from the Third Quinquennium of the Pentecostal-Roman Catholic Dialogue), focusing on the first round of talks (Riano, Italy, 1985), which were on the topic of communio sanctorum. In the third section, the author presents and engages with Kuzmič & Volf ’s paper, “Theology of the Church as a Fellowship of Persons” which represents one of the earliest attempts to articulate a Pentecostal ecclesiology based on the notion of communio sanctorum. In the end, the author will attempt to show how this ecclesiological vision helps the shaping of a Pentecostal theology of public life.

scholarly journals Ekumenisiteit as ’n Skrifgefundeerde raamwerk vir kerklike eenheid – ook op die gebied van sendingwerk

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Smit
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Core Characteristics ◽  
The Church

Ecumenicism as a Scripturally-founded framework for ecclesiastical unity – also in missionary work In this article the foundations of a Scripturally-based ecumenicism utilised as a framework within which the dilemma of church division, also in missionary work, can be approached are investigated. The article identifies these foundations as the attributa ecclesiae (the core characteristics of the church), namely unity, catholicity, apostolicity and holiness. The conclusion arrived at is that the purpose of ecumenicism is the unity of the church, because of the catholicity of the church, based on the apostolicity of the church and aimed at the holiness of the church. Within this framework, missionary work should rather focus on cooperation than on emphasising ecclesiastical differences. The concluding issue concerns the boundaries of ecclesiastical cooperation, also in missionary work. Is it possible that different churches within the Reformed tradition can cooperate in missionary fields? Is it furthermore possible that the boundaries can be extended to encompass more than the approach of the Reformed tradition? In which way can churches from the Reformed tradition also cooperate with, for instance, churches from the Lutheran tradition, or with churches from the charismatic or even Roman Catholic traditions? The conclusions arrived at point to the notae ecclesiae (the core marks of the church) as the widest boundary for ecclesiastical cooperation. This approach accommodates the diversity of culture and ethos within the boundaries of the core marks of the church which determine what the church should be like in order to be church of the Lord. In the currently rising ecumenical phase of the history of Christianity the emphasis will increasingly fall on unifying rather than on dividing aspects of the church. The conclusion indicates that the unity of the church, also in missionary work, can only be attained and maintained within the framework of the core characteristics of the church (the attributa ecclesiae) – and that ecumenicism is no longer possible if a church is not recognisable as church of Christ and does not function within the core marks set for the church (the notae ecclesiae).

The Reshaping of Christian Tradition: Western Denominational Identity in a Non-Western Context

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 399-426
Author(s):  
Brian Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
The Third ◽  
Denominational Identity ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Church

In August 1841 George Spencer, great-grandson of the third Duke of Marlborough and second Bishop of Madras, entertained two house guests in his residence at Kotagherry. Both were seeking admission into the Anglican ministry. One was an Indian, a former Roman Catholic priest who had begun to question the catholicity of the Roman communion, had joined himself for a while to the American Congregational mission in Madura, but had eventually reached the conclusion, in Spencer’s words, that ‘evangelical doctrine joined to Apostolic Government were only to be met with in indissoluble conjunction with the Church of England’. Bishop Spencer, while keen to employ the Indian as a catechist, felt it premature, ‘in a matter of such importance’, to receive him as a presbyter, even though the validity of his orders was unquestionable. The Indian is not named in the records, and it would appear that he never became an Anglican priest.

scholarly journals The church as sacrament of the kingdom - A reformed commentary

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-319
Author(s):  
M E Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
The Church

One of the most promising aspects of the text of the third phase of the International Roman-Catholic-Reformed Dialogue might be the suggestion to reflect upon the idea of the church as “sacrament of the kingdom”.In this contribution, written in honour of the ecclesiological work of Conrad Wethmar, I shall take up that suggestion and develop a fourfold approach of the sacraments in which the interconnectedness of church and kingdom plays a crucial role. I shall deal with the soteriological, the ecclesiological, the eschatological and the symbolic aspect respectively. Deliberately, I begin with the soteriological aspect because the first and main thing sacraments are doing, is pointing to our salvation. Salvation implies, however, a mediation of salvation and hence the ecclesiological aspect follows the soteriological aspect. The mediation of the church always points beyond itself to the kingdom of God. That is the eschatological aspect. And every reference to the eschaton always has the form of the symbol as the focal point of the “already” and “not yet” character of the kingdom of God. We label that as the symbolic aspect.My conclusion will be that the fruitfulness of the suggestion to speak about the church as “sacrament of the kingdom” depends on the preparedness to reap the results of the ecumenical discussions since Vatican II.

scholarly journals Verlossing: van Pelagius tot Joseph Smith

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.F. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
The Church

Salvation: from Pelagius to Joseph Smith Every Christian church believes that she is a true church and proclaims that man can be saved and has eternal life. This dogma of salvation is usually based on the Bible as the Word of God. Mormons claim that Joseph Smith, founder and first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, received a divine message to restore the church that Jesus had started.  In studying the plan of salvation the Mormons proclaim it is quite clear that that way of salvation was not restored in their church, but that it followed a pattern of false doctrine that was revealed time and again in history.  The core of their preaching of salvation is that man has the free will to choose his own salvation. Mormons are not the first to preach this message. This article will show that Pelagius oisty-kated the free will of man. In the Reformation the Anabaptists preached the same message, being a third movement next to the reformed and Roman Catholic believes. The Anabaptists became part of the churches of the Netherlands and at the Synod of Dordt the theology of the free will was rejected and answered.  The dogma of the free will of man did not end at this Synod: 150 years later John Wesley preached the same message of salvation during his and Whitefield’s campaigns at the dawn of the nineteenth century in the USA.  During this time Joseph Smith started to seek the true church and founded the Mormon Church. Although his theology differs quite strongly from the Methodist Church in which he grew up, the core of the way of salvation is the same: man has free will in choosing his salvation.

From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: The Problem of the Contemporary Meaning of Scripture

Horizons ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Schneiders
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Third ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Pastoral Practice

AbstractPart I discusses the recent history of Roman Catholic biblical scholarship which has led to the emergence of the problem of how the results of scientific biblical research can and should be integrated into the pastoral project of the Church. It suggests that the original division of labor among biblical scholars, theologians, and pastors is no longer visible (if, indeed, it ever was).Part II describes three models of biblical research in terms of the conception of Scripture and the theory of interpretation operative in each. The three models are not proposed as equally adequate. Proof-texting, the model which was paradigmatic prior to Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943), is presented as seriously defective. Historical critical exegesis, the model which has been, and to a large extent remains, paradigmatic is shown to be considerably more adequate. However, a variety of forces is placing pressure on this model, revealing its inadequacies when it terminates in historical reconstruction. The third model, the hermeneutical, seems capable of integrating exegesis into a process of interpretation which will prove more adequate to the task of revealing both what the text meant in its own time and culture and what the text means today.Part III draws out the implications of each of the three models for the relationship between biblical research and pastoral practice.

Purgatory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Zagzebski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intermediate Phase ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The State ◽  
Communion Of Saints ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Retributive Punishment ◽  
The Church

According to Roman Catholic teaching, purgatory is the place or state of purification after death in which those who die in a state of grace (and hence are assured of being saved) make expiation for unforgiven venial sins or endure temporal punishment for mortal and venial sins already forgiven. The concept evolved to resolve the theological confusion about the state of souls between personal death and the general resurrection and Last Judgment, to explain what happens to those persons who repent before death but do not live long enough to do penance for their sins, and to make intelligible the widespread practice of praying for the souls of the departed. The doctrine developed in conjunction with a ‘high’ Eucharistic theology, according to which all the faithful departed take part in the liturgy of the Church. The idea of purgatory is therefore intimately connected with Christian ideas of sin, judgment, retributive punishment, the communion of saints and the idea that salvation occurs in history. It was rejected by the Reformers and, in the second half of the twentieth century, interest from Catholic theologians has waned. Nevertheless, some modern Protestant thinkers have defended the concept as an intermediate phase in salvation.

scholarly journals Jak zrealizować wspólny projekt pt. „Małżeństwo”? Papieża Franciszka koncepcja przygotowania do małżeństwa

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Madalena Parzyszek
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Christian Initiation ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Present Understanding

Abstrakt: Papież Franciszek zwołując 5 października 2014 roku III nadzwyczajne zgromadzenie ogólne Synodu Biskupów nt. „Wyzwań duszpasterskich dla rodziny w kontekście nowej ewangelizacji”, oraz 24 października 2015 roku wydając dokument „Misja i powołanie rodziny w Kościele i w świecie współczesnym” zaprosił do refleksji m.in. nad przygotowaniem do małżeństwa. Dotyczy ona głoszenia kerygmatu i inicjacji w sakrament. Autorka artykułu podejmuje się odczytania rozumienia kerygmatu w nauczaniu papieża Franciszka rozumiejąc go jako orędzie mające moc przemiany życia, prowadzące do osobowej relacji z Bogiem, zawierające także konieczność proklamowania go w świecie. Inicjację w sakrament rozumie jako „zakorzenienia przygotowania do małżeństwa w procesie inicjacji chrześcijańskiej, z zaakcentowaniem powiązania małżeństwa ze chrztem oraz innymi sakramentami” ( Franciszek, 2016, 206). Refleksja nad wskazanymi treściami w związku z przygotowaniem do małżeństwa stanowi przyczynek do dyskusji nad zaproponowanym tematem.   Abstract: Pope Francis convoking The Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on 5th October 2014 on the topic of „Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization” and during The Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, popularly referred to as the Synod on the Family, releasing on 24 October 2015 the final report intitled "The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and in the Contemporary World” invited to join reflection how to prepare for marriage. It is concerned with preaching the kerygma and initiation into sacrament of Martimony. The aim of the author of this article is to present understanding the kerygma in Pope Francis’ teaching as a proclamation having power to change life, leading to relationship with God including also necessity to proclaim it in the world.  Initiation into sacrament of Martimony is understood as „implanting prepation for marriage during christian initiation, with accenting connection marriage with the baptism and other sacraments” (Pope Francis, 2016, 206). Reflection of indicated contents connected with preparing for marriage constitutes a trigger to discussion of proposed subject.  

A Kind of Liturgical ARCIC? The Ecumenical Potential of the four Eucharistic Prayers of Rite A in The Alternative Service Book 1980

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
David J. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Alternative Service ◽  
The Church

This essay originated as a contribution to the joint course on eucharistic theology and practice for St Mary's Seminary, Oscott, and The Queen's College in Birmingham. Its purpose was to highlight, in a context in which Roman Catholic, Methodist, United Reformed, and Church of England ordinands were considering divergent approaches to the eucharist, that many of the questions were faced by the Church of England internally because of its doctrinal breadth. The Eucharistic Prayers of The Alternative Service Book 1980, therefore, can almost be regarded as ‘agreed statements’, but in the setting of worship and as a means of worship, and so are worthy to be set alongside purely theological statements such as the Final Report of ARCIC 1 or the WCC document Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry as a liturgical contribution to the continuing ecumenical debate.

'The Apostolicity of the Church' in Light of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Consensus on Justification

Ecclesiology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-335
Author(s):  
Pieter De Witte
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Joint Declaration ◽  
Apostolic Succession ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe fourth phase of the international Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue resulted in a final report, The Apostolicity of the Church (AC), which was published in 2006. The convergences described in this document are best understood in light of the earlier stages in the Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue, especially in relation to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ). AC seems to move beyond the 'differentiated consensus' of the JDDJ as it aims at some form of 'differentiated participation' of Lutheran and Roman Catholic ministers in the same apostolic ministry. A careful study of the way the topic of apostolic succession is dealt with in AC shows that a central aspect of the Roman Catholic concept of apostolic succession remains somewhat invisible in the document. This aspect can be made explicit in terms of the relation between faith and institution. The fact that this issue remains unaddressed may hinder the very attempt to determine the content of the proposed 'differentiated participation'.

On the Uses of Heresy: Leonard Feeney, Mary Douglas, and the Notre Dame Football Team

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-341
Author(s):  
Mark Massa
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Football Team ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Church

On the afternoon of 6 September 1952, the readers of the Boston Pilot—the voice of the Roman Catholic archdiocese—found on the front page of their usually staid weekly the text of a trenchant letter from the Holy Office in Rome. The text, dated August 8, addressed a group of Boston Catholics who had kicked up a fuss over the ancient theological dictum, extra ecclesiam nulla salus (“outside the church there is no salvation”)—a phrase going back to St. Cyprian in the third century and one of the pillars of orthodoxy for Christian believers.

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