By Peter-Ben Smit
This research researches the old improvement of the self-understanding of the outdated Catholic church buildings of the Union of Utrecht and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. through the twentieth century, either church buildings were in a constructing courting with one another, leading to complete communion in 1965. within the related period of time, either church buildings constructed an ecclesiological self-understanding within which an ecclesiology of the nationwide church progressively gave solution to an ecclesiology of the neighborhood church. by means of outlining this improvement for every of those church buildings and evaluating the advancements, the examine provides perception either into the person improvement of the 2 church buildings concerned and indicates how those advancements relate to one another. during this manner, the examine provides a brand new old portrait of those church buildings and their self-understanding.
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2. An Appropriate Comparison? 81 The one, the Union of Utrecht, is a union of national churches (some consisting of one diocese, some consisting of multiple dioceses) established through the communion of their bishops and expressed in their synod (IBC);82 the other, the IFI, is one national 78 See the discussion on the subject initiated by Urs von Arx, ‘Bilanz und Perspektiven. 100 Jahre Alt-Katholisches Seminar der Universität Bonn,’ Christen Heute. Zeitschrift der Alt-Katholiken für Christen heute 47 (2003), 30–1, claiming that there is no such thing as an Old Catholic theology as such beyond the articulation of the specific Old Catholic (ecclesiological ) concerns.
4. 105 Both Obispos Maximos and the Supreme Council of Bishops have, in the course of their history, issued a plethora of statements; the selection made in this study is made on the basis of the representative character of these statements for positions officially taken by the IFI. 38 chapter two Statements made by non-representative bodies, in other words bodies that cannot speak in the name of the entire church are, as a rule, not taken into account. 106 Furthermore, as will become clear in the course of this study, the IFI as a single national church can decide and do much more on its own than the Union of Utrecht as a communion of national churches; this also means that it produces much more output in terms of decisions about church policy than the IBC.
11–2. 46 On which, see Jürgen Osterhammel, ‘Transkulturell vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaft,’ in Vergleich, ed. Haupt and Kocka (see above, ch. 2, n. 7), 271–313. See also Hannes Siegrist, ‘Perspektiven der vergleichenden Geschichtswissenschaft. Gesellschaft, Kultur und Raum,’ in Vergleich, ed. Kaelble and Schriewer (see above, ch. 2, n. 21), 304–39, noting especially the function that comparative work can have in clarifying intercultural relationships, similarities, and differences. 47 See Charlotte Tacke, ‘Nationale Symbole in Deutschland und Frankreich,’ in Vergleich, ed.
