Corso
Elenco corsi a.a. 2023/2024
Anno accademico 2023/2024

EcclesiologiaRA0501

Rev. Prof. Samuel OBU
6 ECTS
Sede di Gerusalemme
Primo semestre

FINALITÀ

To help students understand the doctrine and Theology of the Church within a biblical foundation and a historical development.

ARGOMENTI

1. The eternal saving plan of God includes the formation of the Church. 2. Symbolism of the Church in the Old Testament: Preparation, figures, and institutions. 3. The Church in the New Testament: Words and deeds of Christ, the disciples and the apostles, primacy of Peter, the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, words and deeds of the Apostles, the teaching of St. Paul, the remnant writings of the NT. 4. The historical development of the Church, from the early period to the contemporary era. 5. The images or nature of the Church derived from scripture. 6. The main marks of the Church: unity (subsistence, wounds); holiness (sources, signs, just and sinners in the Church); catholicity (universality and particularity, missionary); apostolicity (succession, Petrine office, papal office). 5. The people of God (laity, and the threefold ministry). 6. The Church as sacrament of salvation. Ecumenism and interreligious dialogue in the Church. 7. The Church and the world. 8. The eschatological dimension of the Church.

TESTI

Auer, Johann. 1993. The Church: The Universal Sacrament of Salvation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press; Barrett, C. K. 1985. Church, Ministry, and Sacraments in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Brown, Raymond E. 1984. The Churches the Apostles Left Behind. New York: Paulist Press; Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1994. 2nd Edition. Vatican City: LEV; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. 1992. Communionis notio: Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church as Understood as Communion. Vatican City: LEV; Congregation or the Doctrine of the Faith. 2000. Dominus Iesus: Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church, Vatican City: LEV; Dulles, Avery Robert. 2002. Models of the Church. Expanded edition. London: Doubleday; International Theological Commission. 1987. Selected Themes of Ecclesiology. San Francisco: Ignatius Press; Hastings, Adrian, ed. 1991. Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After. New York: Oxford University Press; Henn W. 2004. Church The people of God. London: Burns and Oates; Kärkkäinen, Veli-Mati. 2002. An Introduction to Ecclesiology: Ecumenical, Historical & Global Perspectives. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press; Kasper, Walter. 2015. The Catholic Church, Nature, Reality and Mission. Nelson R. D., (ed.), T. Hoebel, (trans.). London: Bloomsbury; Phan P. C., 2000. The Gift of the Church: A Textbook on Ecclesiology in Honor of Patrick Granfield. Collegeville: Michael Glazier Books; Ratzinger, Joseph. 2008. Church, communion, and politics: new endeavours in ecclesiology. San Francisco Ignatius Press; Sullivan F. A. 1988. The Church we believe in: one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Mahwah: Paulist Press.

NOTE

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to: be capable of presenting the biblical foundation of the Church; be able to differentiate Ecclesiology from other related courses, such as Patrology and Church History; grasp the evolution of the church and the various renewal movements; understand the distinctive marks of the Church as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic; appreciate the sense of Church as complementary of divine and human elements; develop skills for the process of Ecumenism, as appreciation of diversity and pluralism in Ecclesiology.

ORARIO

Primo semestre
Giorni 8.45-9.30 9.35-10.20 10.35-11.20 11.25-12.10 12.15-13.00 15.00-15.45 15.50-16.35 16.40-17.25 17.30-18.15
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