SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, Inculturation
15 Dec 2012
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Lumen gentium 14-16 unambiguously suggests that no one is outside the grace of. It"s better to be fully incorporated than to be joined, better joined than remain in prominent ways. The perspective of instruction was of a critical insider. Sympathetic understanding is the accommodation of the opinions of all sides regardless of reaction. Because chapter 3 of the council documents describes the church as hierarchical, hierarchy means rule of priests literally, or sacred order . There are different ranks and different roles in that community. The title of chapter 3 is the church is. It does not suggest that the church is hierarchy. Instead, the church or the whole people of god have a hierarchy within the community. It is also not that the church has hierarchy, but that they are intrinsic to what it is to have a. It is a community within a community, with a special purpose.
