Church, Anti-Types and Ordained Ministry: Systematic Perspectives
The author develops a systematic approach to ecclesiology and the theology of ministry through a consideration of Lonergan's scale of values. This leads to the development of four anti-types to authentic Church, and a discussion of the role of ministry as corrective of the distortions evident i...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1997
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Pacifica
Year: 1997, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-349 |
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Summary: | The author develops a systematic approach to ecclesiology and the theology of ministry through a consideration of Lonergan's scale of values. This leads to the development of four anti-types to authentic Church, and a discussion of the role of ministry as corrective of the distortions evident in these anti-types. An intrinsic link is then made between ordained ministry and the eucharistic celebration. This paper is part of a larger project which seeks to develop, in outline at least, the elements of a systematic ecclesiology. As a systematic, it inevitably draws on a particular foundation, here the work of Lonergan and Doran, and remains hypothetical and tentative. The value of such a project lies in its testing of its foundations, not just in dialectic debate against other foundational possibilities, but through an examination of the systematics which can be built upon them. |
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ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X9701000307 |