The Catholicism of the Church according to „Lumen Gentium” and „Dominus Iesus” Cover Image

Katolickość Kościoła według „Lumen Gentium” i „Dominus Iesus”
The Catholicism of the Church according to „Lumen Gentium” and „Dominus Iesus”

Author(s): Anna Dzięgielewska
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Kuria Metropolitalna Białostocka

Summary/Abstract: The concept of the universal Church is founded on the vision of the people of God. The Church, as a people of God, is community of faith. The Catholic Church (universal) to convene all the people all the time in the community, the people of God, giving honor to God in spirit and truth. In the same spirit – the unification of God’s people around – say teaching the Second Vatican Council. Treating the Church as participation in the mysteries of God. This community of faith has its origins in the general plan of God, who wants to lead any person to participate in the Trinitarian love. God humanity wants to lead it to Himself. Universal is the source, it is universal and objective, which is seen as bringing people to the coming of the Lord at the end of time. With him are linked to the resurrection, the court, the renewal of the world. Since the Church in its nature bears the mark of universality – the past and future, his present must be marked by the prevalence. The church covers the entire world, ,,is the whole human kind“. ,,The family of God’s children, which develop in the coming of the Lord”. The prevalence of globalization has not, since it does not destroy the diversity, on the contrary – it implies. As the Dominus Iesus, is used, the mystery of unity, to the effect that all men and women who are saved, are involved, although in different ways, in the same mystery of salvation in Jesus Christ through his Spirit". Linking the idea of Lumen gentium and Dominus Iesus is a universal concept of God addressed to all people. It differs only their different understanding of the universality of the Church. Council covers all people who are in the Church, and Congregation – humans who can enter the Church.

  • Issue Year: 27/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-54
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish