The Catholicity of the Church (Part I) In the light of the Mystery of Christ

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Francisco Javier García Valenzuela

Abstract

Our intention in this article and in the following ones is to go deep in the works of some authors who appear in the theological environment before the II Vatican Council, as a potent focus of light able to guide to a vision much more clear and pure of the catholicity as a characteristic property of the church and the vocation which she needs to answer in the history. We start with two professors of the


Theological Dominican School Le Salchoir, A. de Poulpiquet and A. D. Sertillanges, they aren’t interested so much to demonstrate the catholicity “exterior and visible”, that during more than four centuries it was dominated the idea of catholicity, but to present it as an expression of universalism “internal and spiritual”, which throw its roots in the same being of the Church that is the mystery of Christ. It resplendence through the light of universalism of Christ the supernatural character of the Church that free all from any particularism and in the same time, it’s the Christian respect fundament of all values of the religions non-Christians and human nature in general.

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García Valenzuela, F. J. (2017). The Catholicity of the Church (Part I): In the light of the Mystery of Christ. Brasiliensis, 6(12), 7-34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128110
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Francisco Javier García Valenzuela, Centro de Estudos Redemptoris Mater, Brasília

Doutor em Teologia Dogmática e Fundamental pela Pontificia Università della Santa Croce de Roma, Itália. É professor de eclesiologia no Centro de Estudos Filosófico-Teológicos Redemptoris Mater de Brasília.

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García Valenzuela, F. J. (2017). The Catholicity of the Church (Part I): In the light of the Mystery of Christ. Brasiliensis, 6(12), 7-34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128110