Table of Contents
Foreword viii
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
I Luther's Critique of Pope and Papacy and the Roman Reaction 9
A Holy Scripture, Tradition, and Teaching Office 10
1 Luther's Appeal to Holy Scripture and His Critique of the Teaching Office 10
2 The Roman Reaction in the Sixteenth and in the Following Centuries 15
B The Papacy 20
1 The Maltilayered Judgment on Papal Ministry in the Lutheran Reformation 20
2 Developments in Catholic Understanding of the Papal Ministry 27
II Vatican I on Papacy (Pastor Aeternus) 31
A The Infallible Teaching Office of the Pope 31
1 The Dogma 31
2 Hermeneutics of the Dogma 32
3 The Content of the Dogma 32
4 Did the Council Teach an Absolute, Personal, and Separate Infallibility of the Pope? 36
5 The Dogma in the Second Vatican Council 40
B The Universal Jurisdiction of the Pope 43
1 The Universal jurisdiction of the Pope - Content and Qualifications 44
2 Completing and Rebalancing Vatican I 49
3 Vatican I at Vatican II 50
C A Lutheran Response to the Interpretations of Pastor Aeternus 52
D Primacy of Doctrine and Jurisdiction - Necessary? An Ecumenical Reflection 55
III Confessional Approaches to the communio ecclesiarum and the Service of Unity 58
A Communio ecclesiarum and the Service of Unity in the Lutheran Churches 58
1 Communio ecclesiarum - Inner-Lutheran Communion 60
2 Communio ecclesiarum Worldwide 62
B Communio ecclesiarum and Service to Unity in the Roman Catholic Church 65
1 Ecclesiological Guidelines of the Second Vatican Council 65
2 The Role of Doctrine in Canonical Norms 68
Excursus: On the Authority and Binding Character of Roman Catholic Magisterial Texts and Curial Documents 74
3 Primacy of Jurisdiction in Contemporary Roman Catholic Canon Law 76
4 Theological Considerations 81
C Appendix: Honorary Primacy in the Early Church and communio ecclesiarum - Brief Survey 84
1 The Honorary Primacy in the Early Church 85
2 Orthodox Churches 86
3 Anglican Communion 89
4 Methodist Churches 91
IV Promising Developments and Challenges 93
A Promising Developments 94
1 Montreal 1963: A New Approach to the Concept of Tradition 94
2 The Second- Vatican Council: Dei verbum and Lumen gentium 95
3 Lutheran-Catholic Theological Dialogue 100
3.1 The First International Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue 100
3.2 The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue in the USA 101
3.3 The Dialogue in Germany between the DBK and the VELKD 103
3.4 The International Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue on Apostolicity 108
B Problematic Developments 110
1 The Controversy over the Ecclesiological Status of Lutheran Churches no
2 Lutheranism and the Catholicity of the Church 113
V Ut unum sint: Toward a Renewal of the Petrine Ministry 115
A Hermeneutical Principles for the Rereading of Vatican I (Summary) 115
B Conclusions and Implications 120
1 New Assessments 120
1.1 New Evaluation of the Papal Ministry by the Lutheran Churches 120
1.2 The Roman Catholic Church and the communio ecclesiarum 120
1.3 Consequences 121
2 On the Way to a Common Understanding of the Petrine Ministry 121
2.1 Petrine Ministry and Council 121
2.2 Ministry of Unity and Pastoral Leadership or Oversight 123
2.3 Petrine Ministry in Service of Truth 123
Members of the Group of Farfa Sabina 126
