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To mark the tenth anniversary, in 2019, of the Apostolic Constitution
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This article examines the ecclesiological tension caused by the nature of the Church as a singular and plural entity. As a singular entity, the Church is universal or catholic; in a plural designation, we speak of local or particular churches. The relationship between the universal and the local has generated many debates that have caused paradigm shifts within ecclesiology, from the hierarchical to the communio frameworks, and even synodality. In exploring these debates and their implications for some aspects of the legislative norms, as well as in the light of the contemporary conversations on synodality, the article address the theological question of the representative function of bishops. The evolution of the Synod of Bishops suggests that this long-running debate may be entering a new phase with the synodal processes that Pope Francis is promoting in the Church today.
This is an excellent work of scholarship and a distinguished contribution to the growing history of the Anglican Church of Australia. Liturgy lies at the heart of the Anglican tradition and this book sets its liturgical story in the context of the issues that have been playing an important role in church life more generally. This aim is achieved by deploying material that shows up the theological and organisational questions that surrounded and influenced the liturgical questions that are encountered in this narrative. It helps to understand this narrative to recognise that the Anglican Church of Australia is one of
During periods of the coronavirus pandemic, in-person public worship has been illegal in many countries as part of public health measures to limit infectious disease transmission. By necessity, many churches have offered virtual worship instead. This has often been positively presented, including in recent studies by Teresa Berger, Katherine Schmidt and Richard Burridge, as maintaining church community, engaging new worshippers and fulfilling theological expectations and requirements.
Drawing on a wide range of theological and philosophical reflection, the Episcopal Church bishop Andrew Doyle sounds a more cautionary note. His study opens with an extended preface by his fellow bishop William Franklin,
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This paper puts the spotlight on the seminal contribution of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., (1918–2008) on Church reform. When many post-Conciliar theologians were caught in the binary poles of fidelity to tradition or innovation, Dulles embraced a creative middle ground of both-and, devoting much of his writings to the corporate reform of the Church as an institution. In honouring his legacy, this paper shows how contemporary church reform programmes can avoid the dangers of confrontation or polemics by finding an equilibrium between fidelity to tradition and commitment to innovation, in the way that Dulles did.
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Increasing polarization and discernible generational tension; rising consumerism and bloated bourgeois culture; growing panic and mounting bureaucracy; racial oppression and ongoing colonialism – the targets of Ernst Käsemann’s theological addresses are as pressing today as when they were first penned 40–60 years ago. For this reason alone,
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In this monograph, originally a Durham University doctoral dissertation (2018), the author sets out to answer the question, ‘What does it mean for the church to receive with integrity?’ The background to this question is found in remarks made by Pope Francis in his programmatic apostolic exhortation
Jarel Robinson-Brown is an Anglican priest in the diocese of London.
Mike Higton has long had a vision of the Church of England as we know it becoming ‘a learning church’. This is an admirable ideal which I am sure we would all endorse. But one requirement for a church to learn, is that it needs to be taught. How the church might be better taught – the methods, approaches, media, milieu and skills that are required – is not our immediate concern. But the content of teaching is. A major part of what needs to be taught in the church is Christian doctrine (Latin,