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Which Catholic Theology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Donald P. Gray
Donald P. Gray*
Affiliation:
Manhattan College
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Abstract

Catholic Christianity entails a commitment to both identity and universality. These two polarities can be blended in differing ways. A traditionally ecclesiocentric form of Catholic belief, emphasizing identity, is presently giving ground to forms of belief that are more ecumenically sensitive, whether they adopt a Christocentric or a theocentric focus. Today Catholic theology is giving greater attention to the dimension of universality. Theological education in a college setting should be doing likewise.

Type
Open Forum and Reader Response
Information
Horizons , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Fall 1979 , pp. 277 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1979

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3 Ibid., p. 557.

4 Ibid. p. 560.

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13 See Baum, Gregory, Faith and Doctrine, pp. 2–5.Google Scholar