Category: Ecclesiology

  • All Saints – who are Israel

    All Saints – who are Israel

    As a country, the US is deeply formed (or deformed) by dispensationalist ideology. Counteracting this is the Church’s teaching that the Church is Israel.

  • Magnitudes of Infinity

    Magnitudes of Infinity

    STRUGGLING WITH QUESTIONS OF Ecclesiology as I write my final paper, it seems that all things within the Theological Science are interwoven: can you discuss the Church without discussing the Holy Mysteries or the Mysteries without the Trinity, or the Trinity without the Saints, or the Saints without the Church or the Church without Prayer…

  • A Month of Typica

    A Month of Typica

    OUR Byzantine Catholic Parish has one priest assigned plus three others who help out from time to time. By an untimely coincidence of schedules, we are in the midst of 3 weeks without a priest to serve the Divine Liturgy. This week, in fact, we had no Deacon as well. There’s a conference in Vienna.…

  • Ecclesiology Final

    Ecclesiology Final

    The Assignment was to answer these two questions (in five pages or less): What is the Church? What is the Church’s mission? IN HIS HOMILY ON 11 May 2023, Fr James Moore, OP, said, “Jesus did not leave us a book, he left us a Church!” The questions of what is the church and what…

  • Ecclesiology Assignment #1

    The assignment was to do a 25 min presentation on one chapter in The Church of God by Louis Bouyer. I took Part 1, Chapter 10 on the “Renaissance of Russian Ecclesiology. These are my notes. I added content based on other presentations as I synthesized the material. I had not read the entire book.…