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12 - The Christian Faithful

from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Amanda C. Osheim
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

Vatican II laid theological foundations for understanding the church as the Christian faithful through its emphases on baptism and the work of the Holy Spirit. These foundations include ecclesial metaphors that speak to both unity and diversity among the faithful; the faithful’s participation in the mystery of the incarnation and the paschal mystery; and God’s calling of the faithful to the immanent and eschatological work of building the kingdom.

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Body of ChristPeople of GodLaityChurch
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 211 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Comblin, José. People of God. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.Google Scholar
Congar, Yves. Lay People in the Church. London: Chapman, 1965.Google Scholar
De Mesa, José M. “Vatican II on the Laity: ‘Limen’ or ‘Lumen’?” Landas 2, no. 2 (1988): 238–45.Google Scholar
Dulles, Avery. Models of the Church. Garden City, NY: Image Classics, 1991.Google Scholar
Flanagan, Brian. “The Universal Call to Holiness and Laity in the Church.” Toronto Journal of Theology 32 no. 2 (2016): 219–32.Google Scholar
Goldie, Rosemary. From a Roman Window: Five Decades of the World, the Church, and the Catholic Laity. Victoria, Australia: HarperCollins Religious, 1998.Google Scholar
John Paul II, . Christifideles Laici. December 30, 1988. Accessed December 28, 2018. http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_30121988_christifideles-laici.html.Google Scholar
Lakeland, Paul. The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003.Google Scholar
Leckey, Dolores. The Laity and Christian Education: Apostolicam Actuositatem, Gravissimum Educationis. Re-Discovering Vatican II Series. New York: Paulist Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Rush, Ormond. The Eyes of Faith: The Sense of the Faithful and the Church’s Reception of Revelation. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Schillebeeckx, Edward. Church: The Human Story of God. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1994.Google Scholar

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