The future church of 140 BCE
Subtitle: a hidden revolution
By: Bernard J. Lee ; with "Two kinds of power" by Bernard M. Loomer.
Contributors: Loomer, Bernard.
Publisher: Crossroad
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Catholic Church -- United States -- Teaching office.; Catholic Church -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Laity -- Catholic Church.; Laity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Pharisees.
Other titles: Future church of one hundred forty BCE; Future church of one hundred and forty BCE
Description: A century and a half before the time of Jesus, a movement of educated Jewish laity initiated a profound transformation of Judaism. Bernard Lee uses this as a metaphor for a hidden revolution in the U.S. Catholic Church today: the development of a lay interpretation of Catholic Christian identity. He proposes an ecclesiology that believes that the Spirit is God's gift to the entire people of God without privilege or prejudice.

Accordingly, some form of dialogic community is ecclesiologically appropriate to give the lay experience of faith a legitimated voice in the telling of the Catholic story, i.e., a place in the interpretive structure of Catholic community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-208) and index.
"A paperback original"--Cover.