Models and Priorities of the Catholic Church as Held by Suburban Laity
A survey of Catholic laity in three suburban Virginia parishes asked about preferred models and priorities of the church. When asked to select from statements describing Dulles' models of the church, they preferred the mystical communion and servant models most, the sacramental and institutiona...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1979
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Review of religious research
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| Summary: | A survey of Catholic laity in three suburban Virginia parishes asked about preferred models and priorities of the church. When asked to select from statements describing Dulles' models of the church, they preferred the mystical communion and servant models most, the sacramental and institutional models least. When asked to rate 21 church priority statements, they selected religious education and counseling as highest, social action and evangelism as lowest. The laity had personal and family concerns in mind more than any of the Dulles models when they selected church priorities. The main determinants of views about church models and priorities are theological orientation and age. Younger laity, more concerned with ethicalism and more democratically-inclined, stressed social action and solidarity disproportionately; the same laity preferred the mystical communion model and underchose the institutional model. Lay influence in the suburban Catholic church probably will be in the direction of the mystical communion model. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3509973 |