The Church of God in Jesus Christ: A Catholic Ecclesiology

✍ Scribed by Roch A. Kereszty

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Church of God in Jesus Christ consists of three parts: the first provides a concise historical survey of ecclesiology elucidating the most salient teachings and insights from the Old and New Testaments, the writings of the fathers, the medievals, moderns, up to the present day. It integrates a standard historical overview with a recovery of oft ignored or forgotten insights from the tradition (e.g., beginnings of the Church in prehistoric times and in Israel, Irenaeus's Trinitarian ecclesiology and St. Bernard's nuptial vison of the Church. The second part is a systematic ecclesiology ordered around the four marks of the Church, then proceeding to treat the participation of all the faithful in the threefold office of Christ, the ongoing renewal and reform of the Church by the Holy Spirit working through her members, and finishing with a hitherto neglected study of the eschatological consummation of the Church in heavenly glory. The third part consists of five essays on particular themes of special importance in ecclesiology. Of the five, most notable is the chapter on the relationship between the Church's infallibility and Mary. Fr. Roch Kereszty intends to integrate theological insights with nourishing the reader's spiritual life by emphasizing the essentially Trinitarian, nuptial and Marian dimensions of the Church. The book fills a genuine need in that it offers a rich synthesis of the ecclesiological renewal in an accessible and clear language. It will enrich not only students of theology but all those college educated adults who are interested to delve beyond the clichés of the media into the contemplation of the manifold mystery of the Church.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. Historical Survey
1. The Beginnings of the Church
2. Church in the New Testament
3. The Church in the Theology of the Fathers
4. The Medieval Synthesis and Great Thinkers
5. The Ecclesiology of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
6. Ecclesiology before and after Vatican I
7. The Ecclesiology of Vatican II
8. Ecclesiology after the Council: Crisis and Renewal
Part 2. Systematic Ecclesiology
9. The Unity of the Church
10. The Holiness of the Church
11. The Catholicity of the Church
12. The Apostolicity of the Church
13. The People of God Shares in the Priestly, Prophetic, and Kingly Role of Christ
14. Comprehensive Notions of the Church
15. Renewal and Reformation in the Church
16. The Eschatological Consummation of the Church
Review Questions to Parts 1 and 2
Part 3. Particular Themes in Ecclesiology
17. The Unity of the Church in the Theology of Irenaeus
18. A Catholic Perspective on the Mission of Israel
19. "Bride" and "Mother" in the Super Cantica of St. Bernard: An Ecclesiology for Our Time?
20. A Catholic Response to W. Pannenberg, "Evangelische Überlegungen zum Petrusdienst des Römischen Bischofs"
21. The Infallibility of the Church and the Mystery of Mary
Conclusions
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index