Dominus Iesus

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Dominus Iesus ( Latin for "Jesus, the Lord") is the declaration of the uniqueness and the universality of salvation of Jesus Christ and the Church of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church . The document was published on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 6th) in 2000 after deliberation and resolution by the General Assembly of the Congregation, after Pope John Paul II confirmed and affirmed this declaration “with certain knowledge and by virtue of his apostolic authority and theirs Publication ”had arranged. It is signed by the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and by the Congregation's secretary at the time, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone .

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The title Dominus Iesus comes from Romans ( Rom 10.9  EU ). The declaration explains and reaffirms the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church about the Church . In particular, the origin of the church in the mission of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit according to the will of God, the uniqueness and unity of the church as well as its role for the salvation of men are explained as an all-embracing sacrament of salvation . The declaration is based on the dogmatic constitution of the Second Vatican Council on the Church, Lumen Gentium .

With regard to the various denominations, the Declaration Dominus Iesus distinguishes between in subsection 17

  • the "one Church of Christ that subsists in the Catholic Church "
  • the "churches that are not in perfect communion with the Catholic Church, but remain connected with it through the closest ties, such as the apostolic succession and the valid Eucharist ". These are referred to as “real particular churches”. In these churches, too, the Church of Christ is "present and effective, although they lack full communion with the Catholic Church", since they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope
  • the denominations “which have not preserved the valid episcopate and the original and complete reality of the Eucharistic mystery ”. These are not churches in the true sense of the word, but “ ecclesial communities ”, whose believers, however, belong to the body of Christ through baptism . They are therefore "in a certain, if not perfect, communion with the Church"

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The fact that the Protestant churches in the tradition of Unitatis redintegratio - the document of the Second Vatican Council on ecumenism - are not referred to as churches but as "ecclesial communities" can be seen as a special appreciation from a Catholic point of view, since they are not only Believers' associations "or" Christian communities "are addressed, but ecclesiastical elements are expressly granted to them. The Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC) is therefore trying to find an understanding on the question of ecclesiology in a theological study.

The explanation is seen in connection with Ratzinger's scientific work on Hellenistic Christianity.

literature

  • Bonn inaugural lecture by Joseph Ratzinger from 1959. In: Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI., The God of Faith and the God of Philosophers. A contribution to the problem of the theologia naturalis. Leutesdorf, 2nd supplemented edition 2005. Newly edited and commented by Heino Sonnemans.
  • Michael Kahle: Singularity and universality of the salvation mystery. A commentary on the christological-religious- theological chapters of the declaration Dominus Jesus (Trier theological studies, vol. 78), Trier 2012, ISBN 978-3-7902-1233-4

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  1. ↑ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_ge.html
  2. Jump up ↑ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus Declaration on the Uniqueness and Universality of Salvation of Jesus Christ and the Church , 2000, no.17
  3. ^ Jobst Paul: On the way to the "robust" ecumenism. Reason and Faith in Regensburg . Diss. Journal 15 (preprint) online