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

• Superior document: Brill's series in church history, v.52
• Author: Smit, Peter-Ben, 1979-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history ; d. 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 19...

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.