DIALOG DER KIRCHE MIT DER WELT IN DER NACHPATRISTISCHEN ZEIT: DIE THEOLOGIE DES BISCHOFSAMTES AUF KONZILIEN VON TRIENT, I. UND II. VATIKANUM. SKIZZE EINER (MÖGLICHEN) LEKTÜRE AUS ORTHODOXER SICHT
THE DIALOGUE OF THE CHURCH WITH THE WORLD IN THE POST-PATRISTIC PERIOD: THE THEOLOGY OF THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY AT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, THE FIRST VATICAN COUNCIL AND THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL. AN OUTLINE OF A LECTURE FROM THE ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: One of the most significant aspects of the ecumenical dialogue regards the episcopal ministry. Thisdialogue also reveals that, unfortunately, over the centuries, the separation between the Christians of the various Churches and ecclesial communities was not static, but it permanently became more and more profound, especially concerning the understanding of the learning about the Church and, inherently, of the sacerdotal ministry. If between the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches there is an agreement in principal on the continuity with the Una Sancta Catholica et Apostolica Church of the first millennium, the situation is different when comes about the ecclesiological models offered by the theology of a Protestant tradition. Things become even more clear when they are looked atby the point of view offered by the learning about the episcopal ministry that the Catholic theology of the second Vatican Council perceives as being into a continuity with that of the Council of Trent and the first Vatican Council. This short study aims to emphasize an alternative reading of this theology from anOrthodox perspective, which is intented to be a fraternal and irenic one.

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