The Church as a Fragile State: A New Institutional Model for Understanding the Persistence of the Sexual Abuse Crisis

The institutional model of the church has fallen into disfavor as a means for ecclesiological investigation because Avery Dulles, SJ, regarded it with suspicion because of its association with the notion that the church is a perfect state and the ways that institutionalism encourages clericalism. At...

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1. VerfasserIn: Anderson, C. Colt (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
In: Horizons
Jahr: 2024, Band: 51, Heft: 2, Seiten: 233-269
IxTheo Notationen:KDB Katholische Kirche
NBN Ekklesiologie
NCC Sozialethik
RB Kirchliches Amt; Gemeinde
ZB Soziologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B clergy abuse crisis
B Ecclesiology
B institutional model
B Reform
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Zusammenfassung:The institutional model of the church has fallen into disfavor as a means for ecclesiological investigation because Avery Dulles, SJ, regarded it with suspicion because of its association with the notion that the church is a perfect state and the ways that institutionalism encourages clericalism. At the same time, there has been an ongoing debate as to the value of models for addressing the concrete reality of the church and for engaging the social sciences. Engaging economics as a dialogue partner, the author considers how the institutional model can be understood in terms of a fragile state instead of a perfect society to explain the persistence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and to suggest a strategy for institutional reforms.
ISSN:2050-8557
Enthält:Enthalten in: Horizons
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/hor.2024.24