Immanence and Transcendence: John Cardinal Dearden's Church of Tomorrow
John Francis Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit from 1959 to 1980, and, between 1966 and 1971, first President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), promoted an ecclesiology that included liberal reformers' stress on Christ's immanence with conservatives' emphasis on God&...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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American catholic studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 121, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-30 |
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| Summary: | John Francis Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit from 1959 to 1980, and, between 1966 and 1971, first President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), promoted an ecclesiology that included liberal reformers' stress on Christ's immanence with conservatives' emphasis on God's transcendence. Although he internalized the fundamentals of his ecclesiology at Vatican II (1962-1965), Dearden refined them during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Three notable addresses from these years encapsulate his vision of church forged through consensus and governed through the collaborative efforts of laity, religious, priests, and essentially pastoral bishops. The three addresses are: 1) his written "Celebration of Synod/69," the archdiocesan event that triggered dramatic decentralization of authority and governance; 2) his spring 1969 address to the NCCB on the necessity of a church that embodied both the sense of immanence expressed in Vatican II's "People of God" and the preconciliar concept of transcendence articulated in Pope Pius XII's "Mystical Body of Christ."; and 3) his fall 1971 NCCB presidential farewell address, an assessment permeated with calls for greater shared responsibility. These presentations embodied a flexible blueprint and via media through which he strove to rally the great majority of American Catholics into a Spirit-sustained, unified church of tomorrow. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Reference: | Errata "Correction Request from Author (2011)"
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