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New Trends in Ecclesiology

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Father Jaki’s dissertation, Les tendances nouvelles de l’ecclésiologie , translated here as New Trends in Ecclesiology , was published in Rome in 1957 and reprinted in 1963, on the eve of the Second Vatican Council, in view of the conciliar theme dealt with in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, known by its incipit, Lumen gentium. About this book, the then Cardinal Ratzinger told to the Author: “ Les tendances has a place of honor in my library”.
The book intends to explain the development and the accompanying strengths and weaknesses of the new trends in ecclesiology in the first half of the 20th century. In his Introduction, Fr. Jaki sets forth with balance and skill the precise problem that confronted Catholic ecclesiology. In chapter one, Fr. Jaki surveys the genesis of the new trends in ecclesiology as it arose in the religious romanticism of the 19th century. In chapter two, Fr. Jaki discusses the attempt of Catholic ecclesiologists to integrate the insights of non-Catholic ecclesiologies. In the third chapter, Fr. Jaki explores the ressourcement [return to the sources] movement within Catholicism and its impact on ecclesiology. In his fourth and final chapter, Fr. Jaki focuses on the new trends’ attempts to systematically analyze the Church as a mystery.

iv + 294 pages • softcover • $35


Foreword

New Trends in Ecclesiology

Fr. Jaki and Physics

Fr. Jaki’s Later Ecclesiological Works

Introduction

The origins of the current trends in ecclesiology

Romanticism. The Tübingen School. Möhler.

J.H. Card. Newman

F. Pilgram and his school

Naturalism and the mystery of the Church

Spiritual renewal and the mystery of the Church

Deviations and adjustments

Non-Catholic ecclesiologies

Recent Protestant ecclesiology

The Catholic response: criticism and integration

Recent Orthodox Ecclesiology

The Catholic response: criticism and integration

The ecclesiology of the ecumenical movement

The Catholic response: criticism and integration

The missionary movement and Catholic ecclesiology

Returning to the sources

Recent research on Biblical ecclesiology

Recent research on the ecclesiology of the Fathers

Recent research on the ecclesiology of Scholasticism

Systematic research on the Church

The mystery of the Church

The structure of the Church

The universal mediation of the Church

The definition of the Church

The scope of ecclesiology in theology

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index of Names