A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today Contributor(s): Lakeland, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814680666 ISBN-13: 9780814680667 Publisher: Liturgical Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology |
Dewey: 262.02 |
LCCN: 2013018428 |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.11" W x 8.97" (0.58 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Lumen Gentium, Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, changed how the church thinks about the laity, holiness, baptism, and even the nature and purpose of the church itself. In A Council That Will Never End, the highly regarded ecclesiologist Paul Lakeland marks the fiftieth anniversary of this document's promulgation by taking up three major themes of the constitution, analyzing the text, and identifying some of the questions with which it leaves us. These themes are
Lakeland is convinced that Lumen Gentium leaves much unfinished business (as any historical document must), that attending to it will take us beyond much of the now sterile ecclesial divisions, and that the ecclesiology of humility it implies marks the way that theology must guide the church in the years ahead. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lakeland, Paul: - Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley, SJ, Professor of Catholic Studies and founding director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution in Connecticut. Educated at Heythrop Pontifical Athenaeum, Oxford University, the University of London, and Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Fairfield since 1981. He is the author of nine previous books, the most recent of which is A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today (Liturgical Press, 2013). Lakeland is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Theological Society, the College Theology Society, and the Catholic Theological Society of America. He blogs occasionally and reviews fiction for Commonweal, a Catholic journal of opinion. |