The Church: Learning & Teaching

by Ladislas Örsy, SJ

Michael Glazier 1987; here republished with permission from the author.

CONTENTS

• Abbreviations
• Thanks
• Prologue

Chapter One. FOUNDATIONS AND CONTEXT

• Historical context
• Encounter between God and human persons
• In possession of the Word
• Authenticity in speaking the Word
• The church teaching, the church taught
• Cultural change

Chapter Two. TEACHING AUTHORITY

• Magisterium
• Infallible magisterium
• Non-infallible magisterium
• Ordinary magisterium
• Magisterium of doctors
• Organic unity of Christian doctrine
• Prudential decisions by popes and bishops

Chapter Three. ASSENT AND DISSENT

• Surrender in faith
• Obsequium . . . .
• Dissent
• Limits of dissent
• Guidelines of dissent
• Bishops and theologians
• Dissent in the existential order
• Practical examples

Chapter 4. TEACHING AUTHORITY, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES, ACADEMIC FREEDOM

• The house of intellect
• Manifold ways of being Catholic
• Definition by purpose
• Practical consequences
• Bond of communion, bond of law
• Bond of communion
• Bond of communion and of law
• Academic freedom
• Lean years, rich years

EPILOGUE

• Bibliography
• Index

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