The process of admission to ordained ministry : a comparative study / James F. Puglisi ; translated from the French by Michael S. Driscoll and Mary Misrahi ; preface by Hervé Legrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puglisi, J. F.

Standardized Title:

Etude comparative sur les processus d'accès au ministère ordonné. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ordination--History of doctrines.

Ordination.

Ordination (Liturgy)--History.

Ordination (Liturgy).

History.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c1996-

Summary:

Ordination is a complex process that links ministry, local church, confession of faith, and communion. This process is communitarian, liturgical and juridical, and through these traits, sacramental. In this four-volume series Father Puglisi explores the notion that Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) ordination cannot be reduced to a simple rite of installation or to the acceptance of a charge, but is an ecclesial process whereby a Christian receives a charism for the edification of the Church.

Father Puglisi analyzes the liturgical and canonical institutions in three periods (the ancient and Medieval period, the period of the Reformation, and the contemporary period) to recover an understanding of the complex structure of ordination and the implicit connection between ordained ministry and the structuring of the Church.

Separate volumes will address each of the three periods. A fourth volume will offer an English translation of the liturgical rites examined in the first three volumes. It will also include an extensive bibliography of sources and secondary literature, a comparison of the structure of the two liturgical offices of ordination/installation of a bishop and of a presbyter, of the prayers of ordination or installation, of the examination of the elect and of the use of biblical readings in each of the liturgical rites.

In Volume II Father Puglisi analyzes the liturgical and canonical institutions of the Reformation period. He explores the meaning of the Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran, and Wesleyan Rites to recover an understanding of the complex structure of ordination and the implicit connection between ordained ministry and the structuring of the Church.

Contents:

v. 1. Epistemological principles and the Roman Catholic rites

v. 2. The first Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican and Wesleyan rites

v. 3. Contemporary rites and general conclusions.

Notes:

"A Pueblo book."

Vol. 2-3 translated from the French by Mary Misrahi ; preface by Paul F. Bradshaw.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris (Sorbonne).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814661289

0814661297

0814661300

OCLC:

34548891