Prophetic Obedience: Ecclesiology for a Dialogical Church

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A new Dawn for a Prophetic people of God .........1 The people of God in the Ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium .........1 The people of God in the local CHurch of New York .............9 Facing reality in the bronx................19 2. The prophetic people of GOd Eclipsed ................37 The new code of Canon Law ................39 Communion, Centralization, and the clerical Difference ........48 The eclipse of the People of God in New York .............51 3. Ecclesial Impasses : What can we Learn from our Laments ............73 Ecclesial impass: Two examples ........74 Discerning laments in Ecclesiology and pastoral Practice .......85 4. Obedience in a dialogical Church : Trinitarian reflections ............91 Where is God`s Voice heard in a Dioalogical Church .............92 An Alternatie proposal ..........102 5. What does prophetic Obedience require?................117 Sources of Resistance to the prohetic character of all Believers ........120 Tow frames for Understanding prophecy .........125 What prophetic obedience requirements........130 6. Prophetic obedience in Practice .......151 Prophetic obedience in Community organizing ........151 Further observations and Questions ...........172 7. Individuation and communion : Summoned self and commissioned church ...........181 Lamenting three signs of the times ........182 How is one to interpret and respond to these three signs of the times ...........183 Conceptual clarification ..........185 The quest for individuation in communion in the church ..........190 The new ecclesial Movement ...........196