ARGOMENTI
The eternal saving plan of God includes the formation of the church. Symbolism of the Church in the OT: preparation, figures, institutions. The Church in NT: words and deeds of Christ, the disciples and the apostles, Peter the rock; the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, words and deeds of the apostles; the teaching of St Paul; the remnant writings of the NT. The main marks of the Church: unity (subsistence, wounds); holiness (sources, signs, just and sinners in the Church); catholicity (universality and particularity, missionarity); apostolicity (succession, Petrine office, papal office). The people of God (laity, threefold ministry). The Ecumenical Dialogue on the Church. The Church as sacrament of salvation, relation to non-Christians. The Church and the World. The eschatological dimension of the Church.
TESTI
Textbook: Haffner P., Mystery of the Church (Leominster, 2007); Catechism of the Catholic Church (22000); Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Ad Gentes, Gaudium et Spes; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Some Aspects of the Church understood as Communion (Communionis notio); Id., Declaration “Dominus Jesus”; Id., Note on the expression “Sister Churches”; Id., Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects on the Doctrine of the Church; International Theological Commission, Selected Themes of Ecclesiology; Bouyer L., The church of God (Chicago, Franciscan Herald 1982); Gaillardetz R.R., The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Mahwah-N.J., Paulist Press 2006); Garuti A., Il mistero della Chiesa. Manuale di ecclesiologia (Roma, 2004); Karkkainen V-M., An Introduction to Ecclesiology: Ecumenical, Historical & Global Perspectives (InterVarsity Press, 2002); Journet Ch., Theology of the Church (San Francisco, Ignatius Press 22004); McBrien R.P., 101 Questions & Answers on the Church (Mahwah-N.J., Paulist Press 2003); Phan P.C., The Gift of the Church: A Textbook on Ecclesiology in Honor of Patrick Granfield, O.S.B. (Michael Lazier Books 2000); Prusak B., The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology Through The Centuries (Mahwah-N.J., Paulist Press 2004); Ratzinger J., Called to Communion. Understanding the Church Today (San Francisco, 31996); Rausch Th. P, Towards a Truly Catholic Church: An Ecclesiology for the Third Millennium (Collegeville-MN, Liturgical Press 2005); Sullivan F.A., The church we believe in: one, holy, catholic, and apostolic (Mahwah-NJ., Paulist Press 1988); Tillard J.-M., Church of churches: the ecclesiology of communion (Collegeville-MN, Liturgical Press 1992).