The Vatican II
The Vatican II The Laity and Today’s Challenges Bearbeitet von Peter Chidi Okuma 1. Auflage 2011. Buch. 204 S. Hardcover ISBN 978 3 631 61864 6 Format (B x L): 14 x 21 cm Gewicht: 370 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Religion > Christentum, Christliche Theologie > Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, eBooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte. General Introduction Every member of the “people of God” – all the baptised in Christ ‘participate’ in the entirety of the ‘mission’1 of the Church – that is, in the Church’s entire integral-ecclesiological life and its mission to the world. This integral-ecclesiology developed in Lumen gentium, the dogmatic consti- tution on the Church constitutes the theological background of Apostolicam actuositatem, the decree on the apostolate of the Laity. It articulates the Church’s entire integral-ecclesiological life, in spite of inherent tensions in the document. The acknowledgment of Vatican II, that the mission of the Laity has to be inter- preted in the light of the integral-ecclesiological life of the Church in the world can only be fully understood in light of the complex history of the theology of the Laity which has its roots in: the gatherings in apostolic times, the Christian communities of the early centuries, the groups, movements, unions, fraternities and societies of the Middle Ages and the modern period, the activities of indi- viduals and associations which, in the 19th century and 20th, have supported and defended faith and morals, peace and justice in families, societies, social contexts and classes, at times even paying for this witness with their blood.
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