Research Catalog

Title

Authority in the church / David J. Stagaman.

Author

Stagaman, David J., 1935-

Publication

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xvi, 143 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Authority in the Church situates all exercises of authority in the context of the ecclesiastical community - its fundamental norms and values as well as the tradition that has shaped them. It also explores how dissent forms as integral function for all church authority. His major claims are that church authority requires a delicate balance between charisms and offices for its healthy functioning and is sacramental in character. The latter claim means that the historical development of church authority provides crucial clues for its theological understanding. The author addresses the distinctive features of Roman Catholic authority and the need for the free exercise of speech within the Church."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Church > Authority
• Authority > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
• Autorität
• Kirche

Note

• "A Michael Glazier book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch.1. Authority in the Church: a central issue and some other issues -- Prologue -- A paradigm shift: Status to Charism, Obligation to persuasion, Hierarchy to dialogue, Orthodoxy to orthopraxis, Institution to Pilgrim people, Essence to relationality -- The logics of office and charism -- Totalitarian versus dialectical logic -- Liminality and structure -- The other issues: The enlightenment: the critical heritage, A legacy of suspicion, Pluralism, National insecurity, Change as a permanent feature of human existence -- Ch.2. What authories (secular or religious) is not! -- Introduction -- Authority is not opposed to rationality -- Authority is not opposed to freedom or spontaneity -- Authority is not a subjective reality -- Authority is not an objective reality -- A comment -- The ideal of authority is not its totalization -- Christian authority is neither primarily nor exclusively juridical -- Conclusion -- Ch.3. What is authority? -- The general notion of authority -- Authority as a practice -- The grammar of authority as a practice -- Bedrock and belief -- Rule-following: ends and means -- Communication and authority -- Authority and responsibility -- Summary -- Authority synchronically considered -- Authority diachronically considered -- The authoritative -- Legitimation -- Dissent -- Ch.4. The First millennium -- Introduction -- Authority in the New Testament -- The Postapostolic era: the ascendancy of monoepiscopacy -- The edict of toleration and the universal church -- The emergence of church councils -- Petrine primacy -- Conclusion -- Ch.5. The second millennium -- Medieval Christendom: Ecclesial autonomy and the juridical turn -- Challenges to Juridicism: Canonists, friars, and schoolmen -- The Supreme Pontiff and the Avignon schism -- The problem of unity and the emergence of conciliarism -- Reformation and Trent -- Ecclesiology against modernity -- Papal infallibility -- Vatican Council II -- Ch.6. The conclusion -- History and theory -- The distinctiveness of Christian authority -- The marks of Roman Catholic authority -- The episcopate in the church -- Papal primacy in the church -- The faithful in the church -- On religious freedom.

ISBN

• 0814659454
• 9780814659458
• 0814629454

LCCN

99018554

OCLC

• ocm40848564
• 40848564
• SCSB-962163

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library