Models of the Church by Dulles Avery

Author:Dulles, Avery [Dulles, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2002-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

This view has important ramifications regarding the status of non–Roman Catholic communions. It opens up the possibility that, notwithstanding any institutional defects they may be judged to have, they may verify to a very high degree the nature of Church as communion. Even if one assumes, then, that the Roman Catholic Church and it alone has the “substantials” required from an institutional point of view, one cannot legitimately infer that it alone is the Church, or that it in every respect surpasses all other churches. The more important aspect of the Church, according to Mystici Corporis and Lumen gentium, is the vertical or spiritual dimension of communion with God.

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