The diocesan priest
Subtitle: consecrated and sent
By: David Bohr ; foreword by the Most Reverend Timothy Dolan.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780814632789
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Clergy; Priests; Priesthood -- Catholic Church; Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biblical foundations of priestly office; title: Priests and elders in the Hebrew Scriptures; title: Jesus the Good Shepherd : a royal priesthood; title: Apostleship and the development of presbyteral ministry in the New Testament; title: The universal priesthood of the New Covenant; title: Priestly ministry in historical perspective; title: The sub-apostolic and pre-nicene era (second and third centuries); title: The Constantinian Age and the influence of monasticism (fourth and fifth centuries); title: Germanization and the feudal system (sixth through eleventh centuries); title: The birth of religious orders and scholasticism (twelfth through fifteenth centuries); title: The Protestant Reformation, the Council of Trent, and post-tridentine era (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries); title: Consecrated for mission; title: The christological context of consecration; title: The royal priesthood of believers; title: The meaning of the sacramental priestly character; title: Configuration to Christ : the vocation to holiness; title: Sent to build up the body of Christ; title: Priesthood within the context of the church's mission of evangelization; title: The priest as Prophet-Teacher; title: The priest as Sanctifier; title: The priest as Shepherd-King; title: The mission or Apostolate of the Laity; title: The spousal meaning of Celibacy; title: The evolution of the evangelical ideal of Celibacy for the sake of the kingdom; title: Celibacy : a sign of Christ the bridegroom's love; title: Cultivating affective maturity and true friendships; title: The reservation of the ministerial priesthood to men only.