The People of God: An Incomplete Acknowledgement (of Identity)
The theological and sociological category of 'the people of God' was chosen at Vatican II to express the fundamental/basic form of the Church, the historicity of the collective subject 'Church', its mission, and its eschatological character. From the mid-1980s there was a decline...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2018]
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Concilium
Year: 2018, Issue: 3, Pages: 94-107 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt)
/ People of God
/ Interpretation
/ Church reform
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church NBN Ecclesiology |
| Further subjects: | B
People of God
B Hermeneutics |
| Summary: | The theological and sociological category of 'the people of God' was chosen at Vatican II to express the fundamental/basic form of the Church, the historicity of the collective subject 'Church', its mission, and its eschatological character. From the mid-1980s there was a decline of this category and, with the exception of Latin-American Liberation theology and some North American and European theologians, it almost totally disappeared. This article illustrates the criticisms which arose following the uncritical use of the category in three documents of the Magisterium, published between 1984 and 1985: 'sociology deprived of references to mystery'; possible 'nationalistic outcomes'; the abandonment of the significant inclusion of the expression with the identification of 'people' and 'the poor' and with the return to the Marxist idea of class warfare in the thought the dynamic of realisation of the historical mission and intra- Church relations. Finally we come to examine the reasons for a necessary and urgent return to this ecclesiological vision, in order to realise the ecclesial reform hoped for by many. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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