Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 88 No. 3, 2018.
Review article
The Hierarchical Structure of the Church in Dialogue, Cooperation, and Co‑responsibility (a Pastoral View)
Pero Aračić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Djakovo, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Djakovo, Croatia
Abstract
The article focuses on the context in which the life and work of the Church takes place. Beside its inner structure and directedness to dialogue, cooperation, and co‑responsibility, persons who hold certain offices and have their own ideas, experiential and formative, are also a part of this context. The one who leads a community has to take these things into account. Furthermore, they have to be taken into account by bishops, presbyters, and lay believers, no matter whether they are engaged in the community or keep themselves apart, since they also have their own views that they are transmitting to the new generation. In four chapters the article discusses: 1) dialogue within the Church and some social realities; 2) structures that have the dimension of dialogue and co‑responsibility: the universal Church, dioceses, and parishes; 3) how to advance dialogue and co‑responsibility within the Church; 4) fundamental presuppositions of and conditions for participation and co‑responsibility. Due to the nature of the topic, the relationship between the bishop and the presbyter and the presbyter and his parish are in the focus of this article. In that sense, the article investigates human, formative, and methodological presuppositions for every ecclesial office.
Keywords
dialogue; co‑responsibility; structures of dialogue and co‑responsibility; presuppositions of co‑responsibility; general presuppositions.
Hrčak ID:
207869
URI
Publication date:
8.11.2018.
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