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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 | |