The local church : Tillard and the future of Catholic ecclesiology / Christopher Ruddy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruddy, Christopher, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Tillard, J.-M.-R. (Jean-Marie-Roger), 1927-2000.

Tillard, J.-M.-R.

Physical Description:

ix, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., [2006]

Summary:

As Christianity becomes increasingly global in its membership and its practices, how will it deal with increasing tensions between the unity of the faith and the diversity of its expressions? How should the papal ministry of unity be exercised, so that, in the words of Pope John Paul II, "while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, [it] is nonetheless open to a new situation"? How can the relationships between local churches and the universal church be improved? Building upon the work of leading theologians over the past two centuries, particularly the Dominican ecumenist and papal consultor Jean-Marie Tillard, Christopher Ruddy's The Local Church offers signposts to guide the Church as it responds to these and other challenges.

Contents:

The development of the theology of the local church in nineteenth and twentieth-century Orthodoxy

The development of the theology of the local church in nineteenth and twentieth-century Catholicism

The fundamental principles of Jean-Marie Roger Tillard's theology of the local church

The local church is a communion of faith and sacrament

The church of God is a communion of local churches

Evaluation and trajectories of Tillard's theology of the local church.

Notes:

"A Herder & Herder book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-253) and index.

ISBN:

0824523474

OCLC:

61881088