Notes on the Biblical Foundation of the Document of the International Theological Commission, 'Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church'

Autor: Marta García Fernández
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Religions, Vol 15, Iss 10, p 1244 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2077-1444
DOI: 10.3390/rel15101244
Popis: The document of the International Theological Commission, “Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church” (2018), sanctions an idea that has been gaining ground in recent decades: synodality is a structural dimension of the church. This essay assesses the biblical foundation that this document offers in terms of this constitutive rather than operational understanding of synodality. To fit all the theological pieces of the synodality puzzle together and give them biblical consistency, this article takes two steps. The first focuses on exploring the theological welding between the church understood from the Trinitarian Mystery (LG 1–8) and the church as the people of God (LG 9–17). Second, this propaedeutic operation builds a solid framework that allows us to justify why the ITC document brings up certain biblical quotations, to fit them into a coherent reflection and at the same time to present other passages that are absent in the document.
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