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By Miroslav Volf
In After Our Likeness, Miroslav Volf explores the connection among people and neighborhood in Christian theology. He seeks to counter the traits towards individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and provides neighborhood its due.
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Nevertheless, it is only by way of him that Christ acts even in his whole body. Here, direct papal authority over every individual local church moves into the foreground at the cost of the autonomous and immediate responsibility of every bishop for his local church. This seems to me to be the consequence of Ratzinger's understanding of the relation between the one and the whole within the framework of the notion of Christus totus. Hence here, too, we see that in his ecclesiology the notion of Christus totus stands in tension with his own intention of presenting a eucharistic ecclesiology, since a consistent eucharistic ecclesiology would have to preserve the independence of every bishop.
The church is a single subject with Christ not only synchronically, at every temporal point, but also in its totality diachronically through the entirety of history. According to Ratzinger, it has always remained a subject identical with itself, a statement which is, of course, theological rather than historical. This is why the church not only spiritually but also historically bridges the hermeneutical chasm separating today from yesterday. "116 This memoria Ecclesiae— of the whole church — is the key that opens the door to revelation for the present.
Ratzinger, Cemeinschaft, 140. 173. See Ratzinger, Das neue Volk, 142, 189. 174. See Ratzinger, "Warum," 60. 175. See Legrand, Realisation, 216. An 61 AFTER OUR LIKENESS Ratzinger: Communion and the Whole 5. Communio Fidelium not lead the church; they do not possess this authority coming from the whole,182 though this does not mean that the laity is to be excluded completely from church leadership. Because every assembled congregation as a whole is the subject of liturgical celebration, Ratzinger concludes that as a congregation it is also a legal subject within the church.