This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general.
Exploring new options for pastors, tentmakers and laypeople, this book provides structures and strategies to best equip all the saints for ministry.
McDade , ' Catholic Theology in the Post - Conciliar Period ' , 422 Baum , ' Faith and Liberation ' , 75 . Antón , ' Postconciliar Ecclesiology ' , 420f . McDade , ' Post - Conciliar Period ' , 422 .
"Throughout, Lakeland does an admirable job of balancing his style to make the work useful for both general and specialized readers.
... laity ought to receive their statement of faith . If they are , the appeal ought to lie to some large body.'44 In his pluralistic view of the Church , both laity and bishops had their peculiar function to perform ; and neither was to ...
The work is a revelatory entry into the Post-Vatican spirit of understanding between clergy and laity and therefore on how the laity can take their place, not at the peripheries, but rather at the very core of Church life.
A conversational discussion of the impact of John Henry Newman on Catholic thought, especially where it concerns the importance and involvement of the laity in all facets of the Church, including the formulation of what we believe.
The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people.
... idea of the priesthood of the laity and the idea of the homeas a little Church? I. First,then,what is priesthood ingeneral? It canbe describedasthestate ofbeing committed—by assignment and by choice—to theservice of Godin worship ...
As you read this book you will discover the intensely interesting history and theology of the lay vocation and how our Church's reemphasis on the role of the laity in our day is meant to help awaken this “sleeping giant.” But this is ...