Commmunio Ecclesiology and the World: Ecumenical Intimations of Joseph de Maistre's Du Pape
Carolina Armenteros
Anglo-American communio ecclesiology — especially as represented by David Schindler often emphasizes the dangers of Christian engagement with Western social, political and cultural order. As a result, it specifies no modes ecclesial rapport to secular world, or ecumenical reintegration. This paper rereads Joseph de Maistre's masterpiece Du Pape (1819) in its historical intellectual context, revealing Maistre an ancestor who was far more open possibility ecclesiastical interaction socio-political realities. The argument illuminates Pape's ideal ecumenism through freedom, describes book's propositions for realization this ideal. Devoting special attention Maistrian rendering European constitutional history, analysis also assesses relevance problems contemporary ecclesiology. It suggests, particular, how Church spiritual government might further unity without countering theocentric premises theology, violating divinity mission.
Ecclesiology