My choice for my second paper was the ecclesiology of Vatican II and the book you assigned me was Rediscovering Vatican II: The Church in the Making by Richard R.
Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two minor, Christus Dominus and Orientalium Ecclesiarum, papers. The book is broken down into four distinct chapters with subsections in each chapter. Chapter one is the history behind and the forming of the documents. The author traces the “beginning” of the story …show more content…
Through the common sharing of gifts and through the common effort to attain fullness in unity, the whole and each of the parts receive increase (LG 13).
There were two momentous decisions made in Lumen Gentium on involving a verb and the other a call to restoration of an ancient ministry. The first decision was the use of the verb “subsists” in paragraph 8. “The substitution of the verb “subsists” was crucial. The council acknowledged that although the church of Christ has always existed in history, and continues to do so in the Roman Catholic Church, the church of Christ can be encountered beyond the boundaries of Roman Catholicism.” The second was the call to the restoration of the permanent diaconate and the inclusion of married men in ordained ministry. “The brevity of its treatment should not deceive us; the call for the restoration of the diaconate “as a proper and permanent rank of the hierarchy” was
Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two minor, Christus Dominus and Orientalium Ecclesiarum, papers. The book is broken down into four distinct chapters with subsections in each chapter. Chapter one is the history behind and the forming of the documents. The author traces the “beginning” of the story …show more content…
Through the common sharing of gifts and through the common effort to attain fullness in unity, the whole and each of the parts receive increase (LG 13).
There were two momentous decisions made in Lumen Gentium on involving a verb and the other a call to restoration of an ancient ministry. The first decision was the use of the verb “subsists” in paragraph 8. “The substitution of the verb “subsists” was crucial. The council acknowledged that although the church of Christ has always existed in history, and continues to do so in the Roman Catholic Church, the church of Christ can be encountered beyond the boundaries of Roman Catholicism.” The second was the call to the restoration of the permanent diaconate and the inclusion of married men in ordained ministry. “The brevity of its treatment should not deceive us; the call for the restoration of the diaconate “as a proper and permanent rank of the hierarchy” was