Review article
The Ravenna document and Pastor aeternus: two documents - two worlds - one challenge
Niko Ikić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5634-0387
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Faculty of Theology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This article deals with two important documents. The first is Pastor Aeternus,
in which Vatican I defines the doctrine of infallibility and explains the “primate”
concept of the Roman Pontiff. The second is the so-called “Ravenna document”, written
by a mixed international commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic
Church and the Orthodox Churches. These two documents represent two worlds, two
directions, that converge in the documents of Vatican II and merge in a single challenge
– the question of the unity of the Church, which remains a crucial question today.
Keywords
Vatican I; Pastor Aeternus; “Ravenna document”; primate; infallibility; conciliarity; authority
Hrčak ID:
266499
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Publication date:
31.1.2013.
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