| Church: A Spirited Communion Contributor(s): Lawler, Michael G. (Author), Shanahan, Thomas J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814658210 ISBN-13: 9780814658215 Publisher: Liturgical Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 262.73 |
| LCCN: 94041758 |
| Series: Theology and Life Series |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.44" W x 8.5" (0.59 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Theologians today take for granted that the principal achievement of the Second Vatican Council was its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. The central core of this central document - its Vision of Church as communion - is also being taken for granted. But this Vision was hard won - or, rather, recovered - at the Council, and its significance should not be allowed to fade with time or familiarity. The Church: A Spirited Communion emanates from the ecclesiology of Vatican II as a systematic treatment of this Vision of communion: graced, prophetic, sacramental, spiritual, and ministerial. It is about a Church in communion with the laity, the hierarchy, and with all the Churches. Since Church" is God in communion with the faithful, this book is primarily theo-logical and only secondarily ecclesio-logical. It is primarily about the God who is Triune, who calls the Church into existence, and who seeks in every age a people who adhere to "God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). |
Contributor Bio(s): Lawler, Michael G.: - Michael G. Lawler, PhD, Amelia and Emil Graff Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Creighton University, received his training in theology at Dublin, Oxford, Rome, and St. Louis. He was a member of the Theology Department at Creighton for thirty-five years and is a prolific lecturer and writer. He has published twenty-two books and some 150 scholarly essays on topics related to sacraments, marriage, and sexuality. His most recent books are co-authored with Todd Salzman: the award winning and best-selling The Sexual Person: Towards a Renewed Catholic Anthropology (Georgetown University Press, 2008); Sexual Ethics: A Theological Introduction (Georgetown University Press, 2012). Dr. Lawler and his wife Susan have three adult children and four grandchildren. |