DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION REGARDING THE HOLY MYSTERY OF PRIESTHOOD IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM
DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION REGARDING THE HOLY MYSTERY OF PRIESTHOOD IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM

Summary/Abstract: The central difference between the Orthodox teaching and the Catholic oneregarding the Church comes from the conception regarding its foundation. In theCatholic conception, the visible Church was founded before the Pentecost, on thetestimony of Saint Peter the Apostle, and at Pentecost only the invisible Churchwould have been added. The entire conception about the hierarchy, in the RomanCatholic Church, is strictly juridical. In reality, as the Orthodox theology testifies,the essence of the ecclesial hierarchy is charismatic, not juridical. This is whatthe great difference to the Catholic teaching consists in. The Eastern theologymakes no abstraction of jurisdiction and canon law, yet, jurisdiction depends ongrace, not grace on jurisdiction, contrary to what some Western Churchtheologians would suggest in certain works such as those belonging to theWestern Theology.

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