Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 67 No. 2-3, 1997.
Conference paper
Dialogue Inside the Church. Congregation-Laymen, Intellectuals, Women, Monks
Bono Zvonimir Šagi
; Croatian Capuchin Province of St. Leopold Bogdan Mandić, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The topic is elaborated in two parts. In the first place, the problem of dialogue inside the Church is expounded as it is. How to apprehend it. How much has this syntagm penetrated into the mind of the Church at all. How much does it really mark present practice of the Church as a community on all of its levels. Dialogue presumes, and while creates, new perception of the Church and what is it is necessary for realization of the Church mission in the world. Evangelization, both, the first and the second, in plural circumstances of this world, could be possible only through dialogue. It is necessary to accept topics and collocutors. Dialogue toward the outside stimulates dialogue inside - and vice versa. Furthermore, in few lines, are described circumstances and position of the dialogue within the Church. How much the exterior circumstances do affect the condition of the very congregation, respectively on the internal dialogue. The Church has not yet found the ideal model of its inside cooperation and life, and functional structures of its activity in modern social circumstances. Emphasized are the most important moments that reflect internal life of the ecclesiastical community, which result from the openness of the Church to the modern world. There are four reflections of the world (circumstances) in the Church (pluralism, liberal individualism, democratic spirit, freedom of media). Even in the Church mentality is creating that it is possible and even necessary, considering religious truth, to admit different approaches. Although the truth is one there is a possibility to track it down on many different ways.
The second part is dealing with subjectivization of the ecclesiastical community -subjects of dialogue: about shifting the stress from the Church institutionalization to the persons and relationship between them - between ecclesial groups. It is necessary to understand and organize church structure, from dioceses to parishes, more dynamically. Specific form of democratic procedure is possible even in dogmatically constituted hierarchic structure of the Church. All this takes into consideration particular categories of the congregation within church community - laymen, women, intellectuals and monks. As the conclusion ten important thesis for promotion of the dialogical church dimension are brought up.
Keywords
internal dialogue; dialogical characteristic of the community; subjectivization; too big restriction; creative obedience; relations between truth and freedom; publicity within the Church
Hrčak ID:
32093
URI
Publication date:
15.1.1998.
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