عنوان

Who is the Church? Zizioulas and von Balthasar on the Churchs Identity

شماره

LA109549

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Who is the Church? Zizioulas and von Balthasar on the Churchs Identity

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Paul McPartlan

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

A renewed primary focus on the person of Christ has enabled some longstanding tensions between Christians, regarding scripture and tradition, the number of the sacraments, the ordained and baptismal priesthoods, and word and sacrament, to be positively addressed in recent decades. John Zizioulas maintains that for these divisions to be properly overcome Christ must be understood as a corporate personality, the Church being his mystical body and not having a hypostasis of its own. In his view, not only does Christ constitute the Church, as theologians would readily agree, but the Church also constitutes Christ, a reciprocal understanding which he recognises as problematic for many. This paper investigates Zizioulas' view, particularly by noting that he never uses the idea of the Church as bride of Christ, an image much invoked by Hans Urs von Balthasar, which tends to a personal understanding of the Church in union with but also distinction from Christ. With many comparative references to Balthasar, the implications of Zizioulas' liturgical understanding that 'the "I" of the Church is Christ' are explored and analysed. A renewed primary focus on the person of Christ has enabled some longstanding tensions between Christians, regarding scripture and tradition, the number of the sacraments, the ordained and baptismal priesthoods, and word and sacrament, to be positively addressed in recent decades. John Zizioulas maintains that for these divisions to be properly overcome Christ must be understood as a corporate personality, the Church being his mystical body and not having a hypostasis of its own. In his view, not only does Christ constitute the Church, as theologians would readily agree, but the Church also constitutes Christ, a reciprocal understanding which he recognises as problematic for many. This paper investigates Zizioulas' view, particularly by noting that he never uses the idea of the Church as bride of Christ, an image much invoked by Hans Urs von Balthasar, which tends to a personal understanding of the Church in union with but also distinction from Christ. With many comparative references to Balthasar, the implications of Zizioulas' liturgical understanding that 'the "I" of the Church is Christ' are explored and analysed.

تاريخ نشر

2008

توصيف ظاهري

271-288

عنوان

Ecclesiology

شماره جلد

4/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1745-5316

اصطلاح موضوعی

BALTHASAR

اصطلاح موضوعی

BODY OF CHRIST

اصطلاح موضوعی

BRIDE OF CHRIST

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHURCH

اصطلاح موضوعی

EUCHARIST

اصطلاح موضوعی

LITURGY

اصطلاح موضوعی

MARY

اصطلاح موضوعی

ZIZIOULAS

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Paul McPartlan

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/174553108X341260

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y