Obedience and the Church
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Catholic Church
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Publication Year
1968
Publisher
Corpus Books, United States
Pages
250
Description
Students are challenging academic authority; young men are questioning the right of the state to draft them; and demonstrators are protesting against what they call the "abuse" of authority by the police. In these and other areas of modern life, as well as in the Church, authority is under question, if not subject to open attack.
What is the authority of the Church? In whom does it reside? Is obedience (which authority implies) to be blindly given or can it be overridden by personal conviction? The contributors to this book, unavoidably involved in the conflict between authority and obedience, provide a critical examination of this central issue which besets the Church today.
Part one deals with the common good as the foundation of obedience and describes the relationship between obedience and charity. In the second part, obedience is examined as it pertains to the pope, the bishop, the magisterium, and the Council. The effects of authority on freedom, and training on obedience, are considered in the third part, while the final section attempts to explain the meaning of obedience in the community life of the Church.
This, the first major work to deal with authority and obedience at this level, applies in some way to all of us.
The Contributors
Karl Rahner, S.J., University of Munster
Michel Labourdette, O.P., Toulouse
Marie Joseph Nicholas, O.P., Touluse
Joseph Cardinal Lefebvre, Archbishop of Bourges
Joseph Lecuyer, C.Ss.P., Rome
Bishop Carlo Colombo, President of the Theological Faculty of Milan
Msgr. Giulio Oggioni, Theological Faculty of Milan
Michele Cardinal Pellegrino, Archbishop of Turin
German Martil, Salamanca
Gino Coralle, S.D.B., Rector of the Pontifical Salesian Athenaeum, Rome
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Mailines-Brussels
Paolo Dezza, S.J., Assistant General of the Society of Jesus, Rome
Ferdinand Fromm, Secretary of the Presbyterial Council of the Diocese of Limburg
Franziskus Cardinal Jachym, Coadjutor Archbishop of Vienna
Taken from the inside flaps.
What is the authority of the Church? In whom does it reside? Is obedience (which authority implies) to be blindly given or can it be overridden by personal conviction? The contributors to this book, unavoidably involved in the conflict between authority and obedience, provide a critical examination of this central issue which besets the Church today.
Part one deals with the common good as the foundation of obedience and describes the relationship between obedience and charity. In the second part, obedience is examined as it pertains to the pope, the bishop, the magisterium, and the Council. The effects of authority on freedom, and training on obedience, are considered in the third part, while the final section attempts to explain the meaning of obedience in the community life of the Church.
This, the first major work to deal with authority and obedience at this level, applies in some way to all of us.
The Contributors
Karl Rahner, S.J., University of Munster
Michel Labourdette, O.P., Toulouse
Marie Joseph Nicholas, O.P., Touluse
Joseph Cardinal Lefebvre, Archbishop of Bourges
Joseph Lecuyer, C.Ss.P., Rome
Bishop Carlo Colombo, President of the Theological Faculty of Milan
Msgr. Giulio Oggioni, Theological Faculty of Milan
Michele Cardinal Pellegrino, Archbishop of Turin
German Martil, Salamanca
Gino Coralle, S.D.B., Rector of the Pontifical Salesian Athenaeum, Rome
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Mailines-Brussels
Paolo Dezza, S.J., Assistant General of the Society of Jesus, Rome
Ferdinand Fromm, Secretary of the Presbyterial Council of the Diocese of Limburg
Franziskus Cardinal Jachym, Coadjutor Archbishop of Vienna
Taken from the inside flaps.
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