Old Catholic and Philippine independent ecclesiologies in history : : the Catholic Church in every place / / by Peter-Ben Smit.

• Author: Smit, Peter-Ben, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Church History 52.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (562 p.)
• Notes: Revision of the author's habilitationsschrift--University of Bern, 2009.

This study researches the historical development of the self-understanding of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Throughout the 20th century, both churches have been in a developing relationship with each other, resulting in full communion in 1965. In the same time period, both churches developed an ecclesiological self-understanding in which an ecclesiology of the national church gradually gave way to an ecclesiology of the local church. By outlining this development for each of these two churches and comparing the developments, the study gives insight both into the individual development of the two churches involved and shows how these developments relate to each other. In this way, the study presents a new historical portrait of these churches and their self-understanding.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological Considerations, Definitions, and Structure of the Study -- 3. The Founding Periods of the Union of Utrecht (1889) and the IFI (1902) -- 4. The Ecclesiological Self-Understanding of the Union of Utrecht and the IFI from their Foundations until after the Second World War -- 5. The Development of the Ecclesiological Self-Understanding of the IFI and the Union of Utrecht from shortly after the Second World War until the mid-1970s -- 6. The Development of the Ecclesiological Self-Understanding of the IFI and the Union of Utrecht in the Final Decades of the Twentieth Century -- 7. General Conclusions and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places.