Catholicity and Globality

Abstract

The term “global church” is prevalent in contemporary Christian literature. For those who see the catholic church, more or less spatially, as the universal church, it would seem entirely proper to compare and contrast a geography of globalization with a geography of the church as manifested in its catholicity. This article grounds “catholicity” in its proper perspective, in the attributes of God, thus linking it to God's omnipresence. In order to highlight the distinctness and uniqueness of “catholicity,” I also juxtapose and compare it to “globality.” I then discuss the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ by way of indicating the intricate relationship between catholicity and particularity.