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`Subsistit' in Ecumenical Ecclesiology: J. Ratzinger and E. Jüngel

Pontificia Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Meridionale, Naples, Italy, gamberini.p{at}gesuiti.it

This article addresses the issue of an ecumenical understanding of subsistit, comparing the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's with Eberhard Jüngel's Ecclesiology. According to Ratzinger, the ecclesiological subsistit has a Christological foundation, whereas, according to Jüngel, the term must be understood within the framework of a Trinitarian theology. The author argues that these alternative interpretations of subsistit can be united on the basis of the self-communication of the Trinitarian God. Thus the context in which to understand the subsistit should be the oikonomia rather than the theologia.

Key Words: Dominus Iesus • Ecclesiology • Ecumenism • Jüngel • Ratzinger • Subsistit

Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1, 61-73 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0021140007079136


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