Beyond Priests

The Future of Ministry in the Catholic Church

AvPaul Collins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beyond Priests contends that the requirements of the clerical priesthood of the Catholic Church—that all priests must be male, and that all priests must be celibate—is a gross distortion of scripture and the church’s early history that must be changed. While the roots of the modern priesthood go back to the fourth century and even more remotely to the presbyters or elders who advised local bishops in the early church, the contemporary priestly model is very much the product of seventeenth-century French reformers acting to apply a 1563 decree on the priesthood of the Council of Trent. The present-day priestly model has increasingly become harmful, even toxic, not only to priests themselves, but to the ministry and the Catholic community. Based on the historical analysis, Beyond Priests outlines a whole new way of approaching ministry and leadership that is in tune with contemporary needs, is inclusive of women and men, and is more authentically derived from the New Testament and the early church.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-18
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:314 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798881802608

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Paul Collins is a former parish priest, broadcaster, historian, and writer. He is the author of including Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World (2018), The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century (2013), and Judgment Day: The Struggle for life on Earth (2010) and many other books. His articles and essays have appeared in the London Tablet, National Catholic Reporter, and magazines across Australia, Germany, Austria, and Italy. Collins resides in Canberra, Australia.

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Using his considerable knowledge as a historian, Paul Collins has produced a challenging study of priesthood in the Catholic Church and the need for renewal within its ranks. He calls the church to an understanding of leadership grounded in Scripture and authentic tradition. Ministry, he argues, is the work of the whole people of God and not that of a privileged and divinized group of celibate males: the church should, therefore, end enforced celibacy and open its doors to encourage women’s full participation in ministry.

Innehållsförteckning

ONE – The Problem of ClericalismTWO – Priesthood from the New Testament to the ReformationTHREE – Origins of the Present Model of the Priesthood Part 1: CELIBACY, THE COUNCIL OF TRENT AND PIERRE DE BERULLEFOUR – Origins of the Present Model of the Priesthood, Part 2. JEAN-JACQUES OLIER AND LOUIS TRONSONFIVE – A New Interpretation of Ministry. John N. Collins on DiakoniaSIX – The Contemporary Priesthood and MinistrySEVEN – Where to from Here?EIGHT- Important ConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author