FINALITÀ
General Objective:
To help students understand the doctrine and Theology of
the Church.
ARGOMENTI
Course Outlines:
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 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
Textbook:
Haffner, Paul. 2010. Mystery of the Church. 2nd Rev. Edition.
Leominster: Gracewing.
Bibliography:
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; International Theological Commission. 1987. Selected
Themes of Ecclesiology. San Francisco: Ignatius Press; Vatican
Council II. 1998. Documents. Edited by A. Flannery. New
York/Dublin: Costello/Dominican Publications.