Duquesne University Duquesne Scholarship Collection Electronic Theses and Dissertations Spring 1999 Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, and Pastoral Implications Ennio Pasquale Mastroianni Follow this and additional works at: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd Recommended Citation Mastroianni, E. (1999). Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, and Pastoral Implications (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/888 This Immediate Access is brought to you for free and open access by Duquesne Scholarship Collection. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Duquesne Scholarship Collection. For more information, please contact [email protected]. DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN FAMILY AS CHURCH?: INQUIRY, ANALYSIS, AND PASTORAL IMPLICATIONS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY ENNIO PASQUALE MASTROIANNI PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA February 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................4 PURPOSE OF THESIS.....................................................................................................................................4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TERM DOMESTIC CHURCH........................................................................................5 METHOD AND OVERVIEW............................................................................................................................5 CHAPTER I. AN ANALYSIS OF DOMESTIC CHURCH IN LUMEN GENTIUM, ARTICLE 11 .........10 PART ONE: PARTIAL EXEGESIS OF LUMEN GENTIUM 11............................................................10 IMMEDIATE CONTEXT ...............................................................................................................................10 ARTICLE 11 ...............................................................................................................................................12 THE MATRIMONIAL UNIT ..........................................................................................................................13 PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT OF THE MATRIMONIAL UNIT.........................................................20 SESSION ONE.........................................................................................................................................21 SESSION TWO........................................................................................................................................28 SESSIONS THREE AND FOUR .............................................................................................................41 CONCLUSIONS......................................................................................................................................50 CHAPTER II. EPHESIANS 5:21-33 AND ITS USE IN HISTORY ...........................................................54 PART ONE: THE NEW TESTAMENT....................................................................................................55 FOUNDATIONAL STATEMENTS...................................................................................................................56 Ephesians 5:31 ....................................................................................................................................56 Ephesians 5:32 ....................................................................................................................................57 General Comments ..............................................................................................................................58 Concluding Remarks............................................................................................................................58 BRIEF COMMENTARY OF VERSES 31-32 ....................................................................................................59 Textual Commentary............................................................................................................................59 Commentary of Verse 31 .....................................................................................................................60 Commentary of Verse 32 .....................................................................................................................64 MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT IN EPHESIANS 5:21-33......................................................................................68 THEOLOGICAL SPECULATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHOLE ................................................................72 PART TWO: SELECT HISTORICAL SURVEY .....................................................................................77 PATRISTIC PERIOD.....................................................................................................................................78 SCHOLASTIC PERIOD TO 1962 ...................................................................................................................82 CHAPTER III. AN INQUIRY INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOTION OF CHRISTIAN FAMILY AS DOMESTIC CHURCH ..........................................................................................................90 CHRISTIAN FAMILY AS AN ECCLESIAL REALITY ON MISSION ...................................................................91 Vocation...............................................................................................................................................97 Sacrament ..........................................................................................................................................101 Symbolic Quality................................................................................................................................103 One Interlocking Reality....................................................................................................................105 An Ordered Community.....................................................................................................................107 On Mission.........................................................................................................................................110 THE ECCLESIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY.........................................................................114 Priestly Function ...............................................................................................................................120 Prophetic Function ............................................................................................................................127 Ordering (Kingly) Function...............................................................................................................132 CHAPTER IV. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS AND PASTORAL IMPLICATIONS .......................136 ii PROPHETIC FUNCTION: BASIS OF ECCLESIAL FUNCTIONS .......................................................................139 Faith and the Word of God................................................................................................................139 Sacrament of Marriage As a Hard Way ............................................................................................141 Religious Conversion As a Foundational Experience .......................................................................146 The Situation of Cohabitation............................................................................................................155 PRIESTLY FUNCTION: SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION AND MARRIAGE.......................................................161 Grace: Sanctifying and Operative....................................................................................................162 Grace: Cooperative ..........................................................................................................................164 The Situation of Absent Fathers ........................................................................................................166 Staying Married.................................................................................................................................168 ORDERING (KINGLY) FUNCTION..............................................................................................................173 ENDNOTES …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………………………………244 iii INTRODUCTION Purpose of Thesis The purpose of this thesis is to determine in what sense the Christian family can be called Church: not at all, analogically, and/or univocally. Integral to my thesis is that the hierarchical magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church has developed significantly the ecclesial nature of the Christian family during the past three decades. During the Second Vatican Council the council fathers developed a seed text in which they use the term "domestic Church" to connote this ecclesial dimension of Christian marriage and the family which derives from it.1 The core of this study is two-fold: first, to determine the meaning, use, and significance of the term "domestic Church" in select, official Roman Catholic Church teaching since Vatican Council II; and second, to provide a theological critique of the findings and to reflect upon some implications for theology and pastoral ministry. Beginning with The
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