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“THE Eternal Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, for the purpose of perpetuating the saving work of Redemption, decreed to found the Holy Church, in which, as in the house of the living God, all the faithful might be united by the bond of one faith and charity. For this reason He asked the Father, not for the Apostles only, but for them also who through their word should believe in Him, that they all might be one, as He and His Father are one. And just as He Himself was sent by the Father, so sent He His Apostles whom He had chosen out of the world; so again did He will that there should be in His Church pastors and doctors even unto the consummation of the world. In order that the episcopate might be one and undivided, and that by means of a closely united priesthood the whole multitude of believers might be preserved in the unity of faith and communion, He set the Blessed Peter over the other Apostles, and in him He established a perpetual principle of both of these unities, and a visible foundation upon the firmness of which an eternal temple should be raised” (Vatican Council, sess. iv.).
We shall treat of the Preparation for the Church (chap. i); the Institution and Constitution of the Church (chap. ii.); the Primacy of St. Peter (chap. iii.); the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff (chap. iv.); the Properties and Marks of the Church (chap. v.).
Authorities: Franzelin, De Ecclesia Christi; Palmieri, De Eccl. et De Romano Pontifice; Stapleton, De Principiis Fidei Doctrinalibus; Bellarmine, De Controversiis, etc., ii.; Vacant, Études Théol. sur les Constitutions du Concile du Vatican; Turmel, Hist. de la Théol. Positive du Concile de Trent au Concile du Vatican; Billot, De Ecclesia, etc.
“THE Eternal Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, for the purpose of perpetuating the saving work of Redemption, decreed to found the Holy Church, in which, as in the house of the living God, all the faithful might be united by the bond of one faith and charity. For this reason He asked the Father, not for the Apostles only, but for them also who through their word should believe in Him, that they all might be one, as He and His Father are one. And just as He Himself was sent by the Father, so sent He His Apostles whom He had chosen out of the world; so again did He will that there should be in His Church pastors and doctors even unto the consummation of the world. In order that the episcopate might be one and undivided, and that by means of a closely united priesthood the whole multitude of believers might be preserved in the unity of faith and communion, He set the Blessed Peter over the other Apostles, and in him He established a perpetual principle of both of these unities, and a visible foundation upon the firmness of which an eternal temple should be raised” (Vatican Council, sess. iv.).
We shall treat of the Preparation for the Church (chap. i); the Institution and Constitution of the Church (chap. ii.); the Primacy of St. Peter (chap. iii.); the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff (chap. iv.); the Properties and Marks of the Church (chap. v.).
Authorities: Franzelin, De Ecclesia Christi; Palmieri, De Eccl. et De Romano Pontifice; Stapleton, De Principiis Fidei Doctrinalibus; Bellarmine, De Controversiis, etc., ii.; Vacant, Études Théol. sur les Constitutions du Concile du Vatican; Turmel, Hist. de la Théol. Positive du Concile de Trent au Concile du Vatican; Billot, De Ecclesia, etc.
Seção 79% da obra, de A Manual of Catholic Theology (Wilhelm & Scannell, sobre a Dogmatik de Scheeben). Ver o original.