Image of the Council of Trent in Contemporary Catholic Controversy About Priesthood

Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии

Evgeniy V. Eroshev¹ 

[1] St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University;

关键词: roman catholic church;    council of trent;    theology of priesthood;    sacralization;    functionalism;   

DOI  :  10.24412/2224-5391-2022-37-76-90

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article analyzes the role of the Council of Trent as a rhetorical element in the discussion of a contemporary Catholic theology of priesthood. In the writings of prominent Catholic theologians with different positions and views there is a common feature that can be traced. All of them believe that modern priesthood is a problematic phenomenon in the Catholic Church, so that the contemporary image of the Catholic priest is understood as unviable and in need of significant change. Catholic authors often link this crisis to the canons and decrees articulated at the Council of Trent, but everyone interprets the documents in their own manner. An analysis of the rhetoric revealed in the texts has highlighted an important point of intersection — the «sacralization» of the priesthood, which proved to be the main «problem» of the Council’s documents. The categorical nature of the decrees on the one hand, and their understatement and fragmentation on the other, have given room for a wide variety of interpretations, which nicely reflect the two mainstream approaches in contemporary Catholic theology: dogmatic and functional. These approaches, which used to exist within the polemics between Protestantism and Catholicism, move nowadays into the Catholic Church itself.

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