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  2. Magisterial Teaching of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis

    This chapter offers an overview of the magisterial teaching of the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. This includes a summary of the content of their encyclicals and their other most significant magisterial documents. Summaries are also provided of the major theologica...
    Author
    Tracey Rowland
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Theological movements

  3. Grace in Roman Catholic Theology

    Grace may be described as the gratuitous self-communication of God through Christ in the Holy Spirit. The term also refers to the living, actual, and continuous experience humans have of this saving event. In a wholly unmerited way, the Spirit of the risen Christ becomes present in the chur...
    Author
    Paul O’Callaghan and Catalina Vial de Amesti
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Being and existence

  4. Sacraments and Signs in the Roman Catholic Tradition

    This article works to establish a conceptual definition for sacraments in relation to the concept of sign within the Roman Catholic Christian tradition. In the Catholic tradition, seven sacraments are recognized: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing, holy orders, and marriag...
    Author
    Reginald Lynch O.P.
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Spiritual life and practices

  5. Roman Catholic Canon Law

    The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. The Law is understood with reference to a renewed ecclesiology expressed in the texts of the Second Vatican Council, which deeply...
    Author
    Patrick Valdrini
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Law, Spiritual life and practices

  6. Theology in Latin America

    This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America. It will first make a historical retrieval of how this theology had, for a large time, a European configuration, reinforced by a strong roman...
    Author
    Maria Clara Bingemer
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Theological movements

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