Christ's mission through the church
Subtitle: a primary source reader
By: [edited by] Robert J. Brancatelli
Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Winona, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781599821399
Subjects: Doctrines; Catholic Church; Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-194).
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Christ established his one church to continue his presence and his work; title: 1. The church proclaims Jesus Christ; title: Excerpt from the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 2; title: 2. Witness to Christ; title: Excerpt from 'The epistle to the Romans' / by Saint Ignatius of Antioch; title: 3. The church expands; title: Excerpt from 'The city of God' / by Saint Augustine of Hippo; title: 4. The body of the church; title: Excerpt from 'The book of the Lord be with you' / by Saint Peter Damian; title: 5. Christ's presence in the church; title: Excerpt from 'Waiting for God' / by Simone Weil; title: 6. "More closely bound"; title: Excerpt from "Apostolic constitution on the sacrament of confirmation" / by Pope Paul VI; title: Part 2. Images of the church; title: 7. The church as mystery; title: Excerpt from 'The mysteries of Christianity' / by Matthias Joseph Scheeben; title: 8. The church as body; title: Excerpt from the First Letter to the Corinthians / by Saint Paul the Apostle; title: 9. A church in exile; title: Excerpt from 'Dogmatic constitution on the church' ('Lumen gentium') / by the Second Vatican Council; title: 10. A community of sinners; title: "Love and ever more love" / by Dorothy Day; title: Part 3. Marks of the church; title: 12. "A tower of refuge": overview of the marks of the church; title: Excerpt from 'Exposition on the Apostles' creed' / by Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: 13. First mark: the church is one; title: Excerpt from 'The creed: the apostolic faith in contemporary theology' / by Berard Marthaler; title: 14. Second mark: the church is holy; title: Excerpt from 'The rite of penance' (Introduction); title: 15. Third mark: the church is catholic; title: Excerpt from 'Tracts for the times: remarks on certain passages in the thirty-nine articles' (Tract 90) / by John Henry Newman; title: 16. Fourth mark: the church is apostolic; title: 'The hippopotamus' and excerpts from 'Choruses from "The rock"' / by T.S. Eliot; title: Part 4. The church in the world; title: 17. Fleeing toward the future; title: Excerpt from "The church in the world community" / by Edward Schillebeeckx; title: 18. "Homesick at home"; title: Excerpt from 'Orthodoxy' / by G.K. Chesterton; title: 19. "The sublime dignity of the human person"; title: Excerpt from 'Pastoral constitution on the church in the modern world' ('Gaudium et spes') / by the Second Vatican Council l; title: 20. Science and faith: is there a problem?; title: Excerpt from "Non-overlapping magisteria" from 'Leonardo's mountain of clams and the Diet of Worms' / by Stephen Jay Gould; title: 21. A community of the faithful; title: Excerpt from 'Friends of God and prophets' / by Elizabeth A. Johnson; title: 22. Cheap grace and costly grace; title: Excerpt from 'The cost of discipleship' / by Deitrich Bonhoeffer; title: Part 5. Implications for the life of the believer; title: 23. Breakthrough to God; title: Excerpt from 'Sermon 52' / by Meister Eckhart; title: 24. Plumbing the depths: Duc in altum!; title: Excerpt from "Apostolic letter 'Novo millennio ineuente' of His Holiness Pope John Paul II" / by John Paul II; title: 25. Living liturgically; title: Excerpt from 'The spirit of the liturgy' / by Romano Guardini; title: 26. Walk the talk; title: Excerpt from "I have been called a Luddite," from 'A man without a country' / by Kurt Vonnegut; title: 27. "The sunshine of darkness"; title: Excerpt from 'Mother Teresa: come be my light: the private writings of the Saint of Calcutta' / edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk; title: 28. Defending, not defaming; title: Excerpt from 'The promise' / by Chaim Potok.