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LD03¡@The Church as a Communion - Its Theological Significance

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Lecturer: Maria Goretti LAU

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Description: 

  1. Methodology

    2. 1.1   Biblical-historical-theological method

    1.2   Integration of "positive" and "speculative" function of dogmatic theology

    1.3   Scientific and critical research on the meaning of the truth regarding the Church as a Communion of the faithful.

  2. Areas of study

    3. 2.1   Investigating the etymological meaning and theological implications of "Koinonia", (especially concentrating on St. Paul's writings and the Acts of the Apostles).

    2.2   Koinonia in the first five centuries

    2.3   Koinonia and the Church as institution

       2.3.1   Koinonia and People of God

       2.3.2   Koinonia and hierarchy

    2.4   Koinonia in Chapter III of Lumen Gentium

       2.4.1   Koinia and collegiality

    2.5   Some theological issues regarding the Church as a communion

       2.5.1   Koinonia and local churches

       2.5.2   The universal church as a koinonia of local churches

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Reference: 

  1. CONGAR Y., Diversity and Communion (London: 1984).p

  2. DUPONT J., transl. KEATING J., The Salvation of the Gentiles: Studies in the Acts of the Apostles (New York-Ramsey-Toronto: 1979).

  3. FLANNERY A. (ed.), Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Counciliar Documents (New York: 1975).

  4. HAMER J., The Church is a Communion (New York: 1964).

  5. HERTLING L. (transl. WICKS J.), Communion: Church and Papacy in Early Christianity (Chicago: 1972).

  6. KLOPPENBURG B., The Ecclesiology of Vatican II (Chicago: 1974).

  7. PANIKULAM G., Koinonia in the New Testament: A Dynamic Expression of Christian Life. Analecta Biblica 85 (Rome: 1979).

  8. PHILIPS G. & Others (ed.), ¡§Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: History of the Constitution¡¨, in Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, vol. 1 (New York - London - Canada: 1967).

  9. RAHNER K. & RATZINGER J., transl. BARKER K. & Others, The Episcopate and Primacy (London: 1962).

  10. RIKHOF H., The Concept of Church: A Methodological In quiry into the Use of Metaphors in Ecclesiology (London: Shepherdstown 1981).

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Note:

Not offered this year