Builders of Community: Rethinking Ecclesiastical Ministry: Rethinking Ecclesaistical Ministry - Softcover

Gonzalez Faus, Jose Ignacio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934996254 ISBN 13: 9781934996256

Verlag: Convivium Press, 2012

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Over the centuries, the crisis of ordained ministry has not been exclusively about the problem of celibacy, even though that is important, and this book certainly includes a reflection about it. The crisis is, above all, a crisis of identity due to the progressive disfiguring of the sense of the mission which Christ left to his apostles and which made of the early church as well as the later church an essentially missionary institution. All ministry, and specifically the ordained ministry, must express this same missionary spirit in order to avoid a relapse into preChristian religious beliefs, such as the belief in sacred mediators that threaten the exclusivity of Christ's mediation, as it is ascertained in the New Testament. It is exceedingly possible that the Church might be reaching what has been called the time of the laity, and yet is also possible that we might pass through this time in a sterile way, not because of not having known of its arrival, or what it was about, but because of not having understood the specificity of the ordained ministry and that of other ministries within Christian communities.

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José Ignacio González Faus was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1935. He has a PhD in Theology from Innsbruck and is currently Professor of Theology and Director of the Centro de Estudios Cristianismo y Justicia in Barcelona. He is dedicated to the promotion and defense of freedom and justice within the framework of an integral vision of the human person. His numerous published works include La humanidad nueva. Ensayo de cristologia (1974), Acceso a Jesus (1979), El proyecto hermano. Visión creyente del hombre (1989), Ningun obispo impuesto (1992) and Where the Spirit Breathes. Prophetic Dissent in the Church (1989).

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"José Ignacio González Faus S.J. is among the most influential theologians of the past fifty years, yet his work is largely unknown to English-speaking audiences. In this important work, he brings his ground-breaking Christological insights to bear on contemporary issues of ecclesiology and ministry. Once again, he paves the way for a theology that responds to the demands of the world church of the 21st century." - Roberto S. Goizueta, Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology, Boston College, and Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Convivium Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1934996254
• ISBN 13: 9781934996256
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 165
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