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Roman Catholic ecclesiology from the Council of Trent to Vatican II and beyond
Rush, Ormond
Rush, Ormond
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For 400 years after the Council of Trent, a juridical model of the church dominated Roman Catholicism. Shifts towards a broader ecclesiology began to emerge in the nineteenth century. Despite the attempts to repress any deviations from the official theology after the crisis of Roman Catholic Modernism in the early twentieth century, various renewal movements, known as ressourcement, in the decades between the world wars brought forth a period of rich ecclesiological research, with emphasis given to notions such as the Mystical Body, the People of God, the church as mystery, as sacrament, and as communio. The Second Vatican Council incorporated many of these developments into its vision for renewal and reform of the Roman Catholic Church. Over half a century after Vatican II, a new phase in its reception is emerging with the pontificate of Pope Francis.
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communio, Council of Trent, Pope Francis, ressourcement, Roman Catholic ecclesiology, Roman Catholic Modernism, Vatican II
Date
2018
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Book chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology
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263-292
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School of Theology
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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Published as green open access
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Open
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