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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| A People Called to Community | |
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| Early Yahwism's Understanding of Community | |
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| Ambivalence about Monarchy | |
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| Prophetic Calls to Return to Covenant Community | |
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| Israel's Response to the Exile | |
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| Israel under Hellenistic and Roman Domination | |
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| The Beginnings of the Jesus Movement | |
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| From Jesus Movement to Church | |
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| Paul's Ecclesiological Vision | |
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| Other Pauline Ecclesiological Trajectories | |
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| Other New Testament Visions of Christian Community | |
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| Structuring of Ministry in the Churches of the New Testament | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Sent in Mission | |
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| Catholicity in the Biblical Tradition | |
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| Catholicity and the Early Missionary Orientation of the Church | |
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| Catholicity Reduced | |
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| Early Challenges to the Conquest Paradigm of Church Mission | |
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| The Development of the Church's Siege Mentality | |
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| The Gradual Recovery of the Church's Catholicity | |
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| Early-Twentieth-Century Developments regarding the Relationship between Church and Culture | |
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| Vatican II's Shift to a More Dialogical Conception of Church | |
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| Vatican II's Teaching on the Catholicity of the Church | |
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| Postconciliar Developments | |
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| Catholicity in a Postmodern Church | |
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| Whose Religion Is Christianity? | |
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| Catholicity as Intercultural Dialogue | |
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| The Asian Church as a Laboratory for the Becoming of a Dialogical Church | |
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| Feminist Perspectives on the Catholicity of the Church | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Called to Communion | |
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| Church Local and Universal | |
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| Christian Unity at Risk in the First Millennium | |
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| Developing Church Structures in Service of the Communion of the Churches | |
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| The Medieval Transition in Ecclesiological Foundations | |
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| The Devolution of a Eucharistic Ecclesiology | |
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| The Lay Investiture Controversy | |
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| Gratian and the Rise of Canon Law | |
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| The Emergence of a "Hierocratic" Ecclesiology | |
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| Conciliarism | |
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| Failed Attempts at Reunion between East and West | |
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| The Reformation and New Challenges to the Unity of the Church | |
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| The Reformation and the Re-Imagination of Christian Unity | |
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| Roman Catholic Unity from Trent to Vatican I | |
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| The Modern Impetus toward Christian Unity | |
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| The Second Vatican Council on the Unity of the Church | |
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| Other Ecumenical Contributions | |
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| The Church as a Global Communion of Local Churches: Postconciliar Developments | |
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| An Important Debate on the Theology of the Local Church | |
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| Rediscovering a Theology of Local Church in the Global South | |
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| The Global Significance of Basic Ecclesial Communities | |
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| An African Ecclesiology of Communion: Church as Family of God | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Called to Ministry | |
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| Teaching of Vatican II and Implications for Theology of Ministry | |
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| Liturgical Ecclesiology of Vatican II and Implications for Theology of Ministry | |
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| The Rediscovery of "Charism" as a Ministerial Concept | |
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| A Basic Reorientation of Ordained Ministry | |
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| The Contributions and Limits of the Council's Theology of Ministry | |
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| Ecumenical Developments toward a Common Theology of Ministry | |
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| Ministry in a Postmodern Church | |
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| New Features in the Structure and Practice of Ministry | |
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| New Ministries in a Global Context | |
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| Toward a Constructive Theology of Ministry for a Global Church | |
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| All Ministry Is Relational | |
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| Ministry and Mission | |
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| Complete Dismantling of the Cursus Honorum | |
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| Ministerial Accountability | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Called to Discipleship | |
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| Foundations of Christian Identity in the Early Church | |
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| The Origins and Development of the Lay/Clergy Distinction | |
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| The Rise of Two Kinds of Christians | |
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| Late Medieval and Reformation Developments | |
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| Status of the Laity in Eastern Christianity | |
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| Catholic Views of Laity on the Eve of Vatican II | |
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| Recovery of the Priority of Baptism, Discipleship, and Mission at Vatican II | |
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| Reimagining a Holy Church | |
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| Baptismal Ordering of the Community of Disciples | |
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| The Priesthood of the Faithful | |
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| Baptism and Mission | |
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| The Church Is the New People of God | |
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| Discipleship in a Global Church | |
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| One Vocation or Many? | |
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| The Community of Disciples as a Pilgrim Church | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Sustained by Memory | |
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| Apostolicity and a Theology of Tradition | |
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| Vatican II on Tradition | |
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| Vatican II on the Sensus Fidei | |
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| Apostolicity and Communal Memory | |
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| Biblical Conceptions of Memory | |
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| Transmission and Reception of Memory in the Life of the Church | |
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| Apostolicity as Eschatological Memory | |
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| The Dangerous Memories of Jesus | |
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| Dogma and Doctrine in a New Key | |
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| The Functions of Creedal Statements in Early Christianity | |
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| Finding Our Way between "Consumer Catholicism" and "Creeping Infallibility" | |
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| Conclusion: Las Abejas and the Witness to the Power of Christian Memory | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| A People Led by a Ministry of Memory | |
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| The Emergence of an Apostolic Office | |
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| Apostles in the New Testament | |
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| Emergence of a Stable Apostolic Office in the Postbiblical Period | |
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| Collegial Exercise of Apostolic Office | |
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| Ecumenical Councils | |
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| Emerging Papal Office | |
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| Medieval Shifts in the Nature of Apostolic Office | |
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| Renewal of Apostolic Office in the Modern Church | |
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| Vatican II on the Episcopate | |
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| Postconciliar Developments | |
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| Ecumenism and Apostolic Office | |
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| The Office of the Bishop in Service of the Catholicity of the Church's Memory | |
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| Strengthening Bonds Between Bishop and Local Church | |
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| Contemporary Examples of Bishops Serving the 'Catholicity of the Church's Memory | |
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| Regional Expressions of Episcopal Collegiality | |
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| Petrine Ministry in a Global Church | |
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| Questions for Reflection | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Study | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |