Chapter 5
In: Global Catholicism
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Abstract
Catholicity is organic, inclusive, and attentive to the authority of the Holy Spirit. As a sacramental and spiritual reality, Catholicism lives with apparent contradiction and paradox as the theological conversation moves through time and space, though it inevitably falls short. The ecclesial exercise of the development of doctrine prayerfully aims toward the discernment of God’s call, whether in the so-called Council of Jerusalem around the year 50, the Council of Nicaea of 325, the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965, or any other act of the magisterium. At the start of the third millennium of Catholic Christianity, a new theological synthesis is emerging. Probing the dimensions of this emerging synthesis and its implications is central to the field of study that is Global Catholicism.