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- Title: Protestant Free Church Christians and Gaudium Et Spes: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective.
- Author : Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 250 KB
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Introduction GAudium et Spes affirms a commitment to the fullness of the vocation of human persons, drawing upon the breadth and depth of Christian theological reflection on vocation. (1) In so doing, it embraces a vision of human persons bound together under God for the welfare of all, and hence articulates important commitments to justice within the social order. However admirable this conciliar document is, the Protestant "Free Church" tradition (i.e., Anabaptists, Baptists, Disciples of Christ, and others that arose apart from the dominant Lutheran, Anglican, and Reformed traditions) is generally skeptical of the value of encyclicals and other official pastoral documents arising from the magisterial Christian traditions. Furthermore, twenty-first-century Protestant Free Church Christians have no such document of their own to express either our common vocation or our shared understanding of social justice and its implications for the ministry and life of the church.