Fundamentación teológica de las Conferencias Episcopales
The extraordinary Synod of 1985 recommended a study on the status theologicus of the episcopal conferences. Hardly half a year after the closing of the assembly, John Paul II entrusted this study to the Congregation for bishops in close collaboration with other dicasteries of the Curia. The fruit of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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1989
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Gregorianum
Year: 1989, Volume: 70, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-232 |
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| Summary: | The extraordinary Synod of 1985 recommended a study on the status theologicus of the episcopal conferences. Hardly half a year after the closing of the assembly, John Paul II entrusted this study to the Congregation for bishops in close collaboration with other dicasteries of the Curia. The fruit of this investigation is the document on the "Theological and Juridical Status of the Episcopal Conferences" which the Holy See sent to them in January 1988 as the instrumentum laboris on which the conferences were invited to make their own suggestions. It is natural that theologians too ask themselves the question of the theological foundation of episcopal conferences. Vatican II abstained from explicitly indicating the theological foundation of the episcopal conferences, leaving this task to theologians. In this study the author traces six directions which the theologian may follow to clarify step by step the nature and finality of the episcopal conferences and which constitute as many fundamental traits of their identity. These foundations are: (1) the theology of the Church-communio ecclesiarum; (2) episcopal collegiality and its theological-sacramental basis; (3) the sacramental foundation of the mission and ministerial functions of bishops; (4) the dynamic character of collegiality which comprises a whole range of degrees of actuality; (5) the analogy between the particular councils and the episcopal conferences; (6) the episcopal conferences as expression and guarantee of the catholicity of the Church in its deep theological sense. The article does not pretent to establish an order of priority between these six theological foundations of the episcopal conferences. The author is nevertheless convinced that there exists a close bond between the six different aspects, in such a way that they are mutually inclusive and each throws some light on the theological nature of the conferences. |
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