{"product_id":"9780814658215","title":"Church: A Spirited Communion","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheologians today take for granted that the principal achievement of the Second Vatican Council was its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, \u003ci\u003eLumen Gentium.\u003c\/i\u003e The central core of this central document - its Vision of Church as communion - is also being taken for granted. But this Vision was hard won - or, rather, recovered - at the Council, and its significance should not be allowed to fade with time or familiarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Church: A Spirited Communion\u003c\/i\u003e emanates from the ecclesiology of Vatican II as a systematic treatment of this Vision of communion: graced, prophetic, sacramental, spiritual, and ministerial. It is about a Church in communion with the laity, the hierarchy, and with al the Churches. Since Church\" is God in communion with the faithful, this book is primarily theo-logical and only secondarily ecclesio-logical. It is primarily about the God who is Triune, who calls the Church into existence, and who seeks in every age a people who adhere to \"God rather than men\" (Acts 5:29).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031237607664,"sku":"9780814658215","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814658215_p0.jpg?v=1763752056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814658215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}