Receiving the Council : theological and canonical insights and debates / Ladislas Orsy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orsy, Ladislas M., 1921-2025.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vatican Council--(2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano).

Vatican Council.

Catholic Church--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

History.

Church renewal--Catholic Church.

Church renewal.

Physical Description:

xiv, 161 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, [2009]

Summary:

Vatican II was a seminal council, both an end and a beginning. It left behind intuitive perceptions in need of precise articulation and pointed to theological values in need of structural support. Bearing in mind that Vatican II was the conclusion of one era and the opening of another, Ladislas Orsy insists that the task of the church is to continue-with both creative insights and critical debates.

Creative insights, though never the final answer, are the indispensable stages of development that emerge as we undertake the holy exercise of trying to imagine the best possible state of the church.

Creative insights demand that we think anew our perceptions of some challenging aspects of reform: the people of God, unity of Christians, communion, development, freedom, role of the laity

Creative insights emerge within the crucible of the debating community-the sensus fidei at work to discern the true from the false with regard to such challenging things as infallibility and indefectibility of the church, synodality, collegiality, ecumenism.

Receiving the Council is a gift from a highly renowned and deeply respected canon lawyer and theologian who was an eye witness to Vatican II. It is filled with well-articulated questions and intelligent insights as well as prudent proposals for good structures in the "house of God" that is the church.

Contents:

In praise of Communio : the church in the third millenium

Episcopal conferences : Communio among the bishops

Discourse about the laity : a sacred power

Toward the one church of Christ : has ecumenism a future?

Reception of the laws : an exercise in Communio

Law for life : canon law after the Council

Justice in the church : the legal wisdom of our age

Stability and development in canon law : the case of definitive doctrine

Definitive doctrine and ordinances supporting it : debating the issues

In the service of the Holy Spirit : the ecclesial vocation of canon lawyers.

Notes:

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814653777

0814653774

OCLC:

318422961