NOTRE DAME SEMINARY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Course Syllabus for DT 504 ECCLESIOLOGY AND ECUMENISM Instructor: Christopher T. Baglow, Ph.D. Semester: Spring 2015 Email: [email protected] Time: MON/WED 8:00-9:25AM Office Hours: SJ 110/MON 1:00-3:00 PM Place: Classroom #2 Phone: 866-7426, ext. 710 I. Course Description The course presents the Church’s doctrine about herself as it is found in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, especially in the doctrinal development of the Second Vatican Council. Topics covered include the Church as sacrament, papal primacy and authority, the relation between universal Church and local churches, the Church as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, and the Church‘s teaching on ecumenism. Envisioned Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate and articulate an understanding of the foundation, structure, properties and function of the Church as found in the Scriptures, Tradition, and the Magisterium. Students will be familiar with Vatican II‘s Lumen gentium, Unitatis redintegratio, and Ad gentes. Finally, students will be able to communicate an authentic ecumenism based on the Church‘s teaching about herself and her relation to other Christian churches or ecclesial communities. II. Course Rationale “The Church is not an institution devised and built by men ... but a living reality.... It lives still throughout the course of time. Like all living realities it develops, it changes ... and yet in the very depths of its being it remains the same; its inmost nucleus is Christ.... To the extent that we look upon the Church as organization ... like an association ... we have not yet arrived at a proper understanding of it. Instead, it is a living reality and our relationship with it ought to be—life.” (Romano Guardini, The Church of the Lord) III. Course Goals/Intended Outcomes Students will be able to articulate the essential doctrines of the Church’s unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity. Students will be able to address difficult questions regarding the Church with theological depth, such as the ecclesial reality of non-Catholic Christian communities and salvation outside of the visible Church. Students will be able to understand interreligious dialogue and Christian ecumenism in the light of Vatican II as essential activities of the Church, flowing from her self- understanding. 1 IV. Instructional Methods 1) Lecture/Q&A 2) Dedicated Student Reading followed by Seminar Discussion 3) Book Reviews V. Texts (Note: Students should have a critical edition of the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use alongside required texts) Bouyer, Louis. The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism. Translated by A.V. Littledale. 1956. Reprint, Princeton, NJ: Scepter, 2001. Kereszty, Roch. Christianity Among other Religions: Apologetics in a Contemporary Context. Edited by Andrew C. Gregg. Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 2006. Ratzinger, Joseph. Called To Communion: Understanding the Church Today. Translated by Adrian Walker. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996. Thomas Aquinas. Commentary on the Letters of Saint Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians (Latin-English Edition). Translated by Matthew L. Lamb and Fabian R. Larcher. Lander, WY: Aquinas Institute, 2012. SELECTIONS LOCATED IN PUBLIC FOLDER Books for Reference: Bretzke, James T. Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003. O’Collins, Gerald and Edward G. Farrugia. A Concise Dictionary of Theology. Revised and expanded edition. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. VI. Bibliography Congar, Yves. The Mystery of the Church. Translated by A.V. Littledale. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1960. __________. True and False Reform in the Church. Translated by Paul Philibert. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2011. De Lubac, Henri. The Splendor of the Church. Translated by Michael Mason. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986. __________. Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988. __________. The Church: Paradox and Mystery. New York: Alba House, 1991. __________. Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages. Translated by Gemma Simmonds with Richard Price and Christopher Stevens. Faith and Reason Philosophical Enquiries. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Guardini, Romano. The Church of the Lord: On the Nature and Mission of the Church. Translated by Stella Lange. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967. Möhler, Johann Adam. Unity in the Church or the Principle of Catholicism: Presented in the Spirit of the Church Fathers of the First Three Centuries, Translated by Peter C. Erb. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1995. O’Donnell, Christopher. Ecclesia: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Church. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1996. Schweizer, Eduard. The Church as the Body of Christ. Richmond: John Knox, 1964. 2 Sullivan, Francis A. Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response. 1992. Reprint, Wipf and Stock, 2002. Ratzinger, Joseph. “The Local Church and the Universal Church: A Response to Walter Kasper.” America, November 19, 2001. VII. Professional Vocabulary 1. Ecclesiology – the disciplined exploration of Divine Revelation as it relates to the Church of Jesus Christ; a branch of dogmatic theology 2. Ecumenism – the practice of promoting unity among the world's Christians; an essential activity of the Church according to Catholic doctrine 3. Marks (notas, proprietates) of the Church – the four essential characteristics of the Church (unity, holiness, catholicity, apostolicity) 4. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus – the doctrine that there is no salvation outside the Church 5. Ecclesia congregans –“the Church gathering humanity,” i.e. the Church in her saving activity and essential nature 6. Ecclesia congregata – “the gathered Church,” i.e. the Church as she is made up of her members 7. Lumen Gentium – The Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church 8. Catholicity – the dynamic universality of the Church’s unity 9. Apostolicity – the apostolic nature of the Church, i.e. the fact that the Church remains the Church of the Apostles because of unbroken apostolic succession 10. “subsistit in” – the language used by Vatican II to describe the relationship between the one Church of Christ and the Catholic Church, i.e. the Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church 11. The Mystical Body of Christ – the title of the Church that predominated in the mid-20th century prior to Vatican II; signifies that the Church is the organism of the Holy Spirit, and that through the Church the mystery of the Incarnation continues today, a title complemented by other titles such as the People of God 12. People of God – the title of the Church that came to prominence at Vatican II; signifies that the Church is not perfectly identical with Christ, but is a Church of sinners, ever in need of purification and renewal, ever needing to become Church. VIII. Lecture, Presentation, and Reading Schedule (NOTE: These dates are subject to change if circumstances require. If changes occur, they will be announced in class.) T. 1/13. Introduction to Course and Syllabus Part A. Introduction to Catholic Ecclesiology TH. 1/15. Lecture 1: Architectonic Principles in Ecclesiology: Biblical/Historical Principles T. 1/20. Library Day TH. 1/22. Day of Penance – No Classes T. 1/27. Lecture 1: (cont.) Architectonic Principles in Ecclesiology: Anthropological- Eschatological Principles and Trinitarian Dimensions/The Marks of the Church 3 TH. 1/29 SEMINAR: The Origin and Essence of the Church (Ratzinger, Called to Communion, 13-45) T. 2/03. Lecture 2: The Ecclesiology of Vatican II: Lumen Gentium (PUBLIC FOLDER: Lumen Gentium) Part B: The Unity of the Church TH. 2/05. Lecture 3: The Theological Foundations of the Church’s Unity/The Forms of the Church’s Unity T. 2/10. Lecture 4: The Ecclesial Reality of Non-Catholic Christian Ecclesial Communities TH. 2/12. SEMINAR: The Institution of Ecclesial Unity acc. to St. Thomas Aquinas (BIBLE: Ephesians 2; Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Letters of Saint Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians, pp. 211-240) T. 2/17. Mardi Gras – No Classes TH. 2/19. SEMINAR: The Nature of the Church’s Unity and the Communion of Saints (PUBLIC FOLDER: Henri De Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, pp. 377-395; Catechism of the Catholic Church #811-822; 946-962) Part C: The Holiness of the Church T. 2/24. Lecture 5: The Theological Foundations of the Church’s Holiness/Sin in the Church(Roch Kereszty, “Sacrosancta Ecclesia: The Holy Church of Sinners” Communio 40, no. 4 [2013]: 663-679.) TH. 2/26. SEMINAR: Christ as Head of the Church according to St. Thomas Aquinas (PUBLIC FOLDER: Summa Theologiae III.8.1-8) T. 3/3. SEMINAR: The Holy Spirit Makes the Church Holy according to Yves Congar (PUBLIC FOLDER: Yves Congar, He is Lord and Giver of Life, vol. II of I Believe in the Holy Spirit, 5-14, 52-64.) TH. 3/05. MIDTERM EXAMINATION Part D: The Catholicity of the Church T. 3/10. Lecture 6: The Theological Foundations of the Church’s Catholicity TH. 3/12. Lecture 7: Salvation outside the Church T. 3/17. Lecture 7 (cont.) Salvation outside the Church TH. 3/19. SEMINAR: The Catholicity of the Church according to Joseph Ratzinger (PUBLIC FOLDER: Joseph Ratzinger, “Universality and Catholicity” in On the Way to Jesus Christ, p. 131-141) T. 3/24. SEMINAR: Christianity Among Other Religions (Christianity Among Other Religions Book Review Due) Part E: The Apostolicity of the Church TH. 3/26. Lecture 8: Biblical and Patristic Foundations of Apostolicity T. 3/31. Holy Week – No Classes TH. 4/02 Holy Thursday – No Classes T. 4/07. Lecture 9: Theological Dimensions of Apostolicity: Succession and Collegiality TH. 4/09. Lecture 9 (cont.) 4 T. 4/14. SEMINAR: Petrine Primacy and the Bible (Ratzinger, Called to Communion, 47-74) TH. 4/16. Lecture 10: Vatican II and the Laity: Apostolicam Actuositatem (PUBLIC FOLDER: Apostolicam Actuositatem) T.