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Title

Towards a papacy in communion : perspectives from Vatican Councils I & II / Hermann J. Pottmeyer ; translated by Matthew J. O'Connell.

Author

Pottmeyer, Hermann Josef.

Publication

New York : Crossroad, c1998.

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Description

141 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Since they seem to require a very centralized conception of the Church and its administration, the decrees of Vatican I are often taken to pose problems both for ecumenical dialogue and for discussion within the Catholic Church. Hermann Pottmeyer, however, shows that the centralist interpretation of Vatican I is neither the binding nor the correct interpretation. He undertakes a careful examination both of the historical conditions that gave rise to the conception of the pope as an absolute monarch and of the Council documents themselves. Moreover, in the documents of Vatican II he finds the foundation for a vision of papal ministry understood within the context of a Church conceived in terms of "communio". This ecclesiology of communion formulated at Vatican II, taken together with a correct interpretation of the teachings of Vatican I, points the way beyond a centralist understanding of the papacy and offers the framework for a new dialogue on papal primacy." -- Book jacket.

Series Statement

Ut unum sint

Uniform Title

Ut unum sint.

Subject

• Christianity > Forecasting
• Papacy and Christian union
• Petrine office
• Popes > History of doctrines > 19th century
• Popes > History of doctrines > 20th century
• Vatican Council 1869-1870 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
• Vatican Council 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Note

• "A Herder and Herder book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The challenge to a new dialogue on the Papacy -- From witness to monarch: development of, or change in, papal primacy? -- The three traumas of Rome on the eve of the First Vatican Council -- Vatican I and papal primacy of jurisdiction -- Vatican I and the infallibility of the papal teaching office -- Papacy in Communion: perspectives from Vatican II.

ISBN

0824517768 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98024303^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library