Contents
Translator’s Note
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Emergence of My Religious Convictions
2. My Catholic Childhood and Youth
3. Theological Studies, Doctorate, and Ordination to the Priesthood
4. Assistant Pastor, Professor, Bishop
5. Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
6. A Grateful Look Back
7. In Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome
1. That Which is Definitive in History
2. Secular and Theological Papal History
3. The Papacy—Seen in the Hermeneutic of Faith
4. The Papacy in the Clash of Images of the Church
5. The History of the Papacy in Conformity with Its Divine Institution
6. The Papacy in the Structure of the Sacramental Church
7. The Papacy between Divine Power and Powerlessness in the World
8. The Papacy at Rome—Founded in Revelation
III: He Who Founded the Church Also Founded the Papacy
1. Divine Revelation and the Human Knowledge of This Revelation
2. The Theological-historical Content of the Gospels
3. Jesus Makes Simon an Apostle with the Surname Peter
4. The Calling and Appointment of the Apostles
5. Peter in the College of the Apostles
6. Peter as Head of the College of the Apostles
7. The Petrine Apostolate in the Testimony of the Gospel of Matthew
8. Peter’s Infallibility in the Confession of Jesus’s Divine Sonship
9. The Institution of the Enduring Petrine Ministry
10. The Petrine Ministry in the Mortal Crisis of Faith in the Messiah
11. The Initial Gathering of the Church by Peter at Pentecost
12. The Petrine Primacy in the Gospel of John (AD 95‒100)
13. Peter’s Apostolic Teaching
14. Peter Founds the Church of Jews and Gentiles
1. The Metamorphosis of the Church of the Apostles into the Apostolic Church
2. The Translation of the Primacy and the Teaching of Peter to Rome
3. The Rule of the Faith and Epistemological Principles of Catholic Theology
4. The Roman Primacy in the Life of the Church
5. The Emerging Theology of the Primacy
6. On the Development of Dogma
7. The Church after the Constantinian Turning Point
8. The Development of the Doctrine of Primacy
9. The Dogmatic Contribution of the Undivided Christianity to the Doctrine of Primacy
10. Tensions between East and West in the Catholic Church
11. Rapprochements between East and West in the Question of the Primacy
1. Church and Primacy in the Supernatural Order
2. The Ecclesiological Introduction to the Constitution Pastor Aeternus
3. The Doctrine and Canons of Pastor Aeternus
4. The Ecclesiological Significance of the Primacy in Teaching and Jurisdiction
5. Papal Infallibility and Intellectual and Ethical Relativism
1. The Dogma that the Episcopate is of Divine Right
2. The Unity of the Episcopate with and in the Pope
3. Reform and Mission of the Church: The New Impulse from Evangelii Gaudium
4. The One Church in Its Universal Mission and Its Local Concretization
5. The Reciprocal Integration of Primacy and Episcopacy
6. The Pope and the Bishops at the Service of the One Church
7. The Ministry and the Reform of the Roman Curia
8. The Mission of the Pope and the Church Today
1. The Prophetic Voice Raised on Behalf of Human Dignity
2. The Human Being is the Path of the Church
3. Human Rights — A Reconciliation of the Church With Modernity?
4. The Relevance of the Church’s Social Doctrine Today
5. The New Humanism: Care for Our Common Home
6. The Pope on the Side of the Poor
1. Every Human Life Has an Indestructible Meaning
2. Faith’s Reason—and Reason’s Faith
3. The Truth of God is the Basis of Human Freedom
1. Through Faith We Have Peace with God (Rom 5:1)
2. In Hope of God’s Glory (Rom 5:3)
3. The Love of God is Poured Out into Our Hearts (Rom 5:5)
1. Witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God
2. The Voice of a New Caller in the Wilderness
3. A Fisher of Men for Christ
4. Preacher of Divine Mercy
5. The Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven in the Hands of the Pope
6. The Church in God’s Plan of Salvation
8. The Message of Christ—Holding Up a Mirror to the Conscience of the World
9. The Moral Authority of the Pope in the Family of Peoples
10. The Church’s Collaboration for the Common Good
11. The Meaning of the Primacy of the Church of Rome and of Its Bishop
12. The Pope as Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ
13. Theology and Spirituality of the Exercise of Primacy
14. An Ecumenically Acceptable Form of the Papacy?
15. Summing Up the Theology of the Primacy
Bibliography
Index
Scripture Index