Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. Historical Survey
1. The Beginnings of the Church
2. Church in the New Testament
3. The Church in the Theology of the Fathers
4. The Medieval Synthesis and Great Thinkers
5. The Ecclesiology of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
6. Ecclesiology before and after Vatican I
7. The Ecclesiology of Vatican II
8. Ecclesiology after the Council: Crisis and Renewal
Part 2. Systematic Ecclesiology
9. The Unity of the Church
10. The Holiness of the Church
11. The Catholicity of the Church
12. The Apostolicity of the Church
13. The People of God Shares in the Priestly, Prophetic, and Kingly Role of Christ
14. Comprehensive Notions of the Church
15. Renewal and Reformation in the Church
16. The Eschatological Consummation of the Church
Review Questions to Parts 1 and 2
Part 3. Particular Themes in Ecclesiology
17. The Unity of the Church in the Theology of Irenaeus
18. A Catholic Perspective on the Mission of Israel
19. "Bride" and "Mother" in the Super Cantica of St. Bernard: An Ecclesiology for Our Time?
20. A Catholic Response to W. Pannenberg, "Evangelische Überlegungen zum Petrusdienst des Römischen Bischofs"
21. The Infallibility of the Church and the Mystery of Mary
Conclusions
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index