"There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma - indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, H ..."
"And, Reflections on a Theological Journey Avery Dulles, Avery Robert Dulles.
enormous pressure from the media and from secular academia to conform to the
spirit of the times. Toward the end of my stay at The Catholic University I
published The Catholicity of the Church, the Martin C. D'Arcy Lectures I had
delivered at Oxford in 1983. The book is in many ways a complement to my
Models of the Church, more expressive of my own ecclesi ..."
"Avery Dulles's theological career has spanned one of the most creative and confusing periods in the history of the church. With the goal of integrating new information from philosophy and the sciences into a deeper understanding of the world and society, the many theological schools pursued independent agendas, with the net effect of a loss of coherence. It is Fr. Dulles's contention that theological schools have drifted so far apart th ..."
"Some Christians claim to reject Tradition in preference to a supposedly Bible only Christianity. Catholics, on the other hand, venerate Tradition, yet often without adequately understanding it. In this masterful book, the great theologian Yves Congar explains why Tradition is an inescapable aspect of a fully biblical Christian faith. He explores the various forms of Tradition and discusses the relationship between Scripture and Traditio ..."