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A sequel to 'Vatican II', 'The Reception of Vatican II' exhibits how the council has been got and interpreted over the process the greater than 50 years because it concluded. The that means of the second one Vatican Council has been fiercely contested on account that prior to it used to be even over, and because its final touch has obvious a conflict for the soul of the Church waged during the interpretation of Council files. every one essay in this Read more...
summary: A sequel to 'Vatican II', 'The Reception of Vatican II' exhibits how the council has been obtained and interpreted over the process the greater than 50 years because it concluded. The which means of the second one Vatican Council has been fiercely contested for the reason that sooner than it was once even over, and because its of entirety has noticeable a conflict for the soul of the Church waged during the interpretation of Council files. each one essay during this quantity appears at how a type of files has been interpreted within the post-Vatican II period and issues the future of its destiny reception
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They left the whole Christian Church a life-giving legacy in what they retrieved from the Scriptures and the great tradition for the documents of Vatican II” (24). 11. Ratzinger, Theological Highlights of Vatican II, 42–43. 12. 43. 13. 44. 14. 45. 15. See Maritain’s writings on the degrees of knowledge from the sciences to metaphysical wisdom, on art, and on the need for modern democracies to cultivate the intellectual and moral virtues; Gilson’s reflections upon the history of scholasticism and his involvement in parliamentary democracy; Lemaïtre’s contributions to cosmology and the distinctions and relations between science and religion; Przywara’s developments of the analogy of being in light of modern philosophical questions; Ladrière’s important mathematical contributions and his work on the relations of scientific knowledge and religious knowledge; the many varied and pivotal contributions of Pieper to the renewal of contemporary cultures; and so forth.
On the contrary, it belongs inherently to the joyful reception of Vatican II’s documents as truth about divine revelation. ” 78 No one imagines the bishops at Vatican II sitting around serenely agreeing with each other on everything, and so our insistence upon the ongoing reception of the apostolic deposit of faith is not a ploy to disseminate an imaginary Vatican II that reprises the wondrous peace of the Church as described in Acts 2. Something happened at Vatican II, and it significantly, positively, and tumultuously changed the Church.
O’Connell, English version ed. Joseph A. Komonchak (Leuven: Peeters, 2006), 592–95, at 593. See also Alan Schreck’s popular introduction to the Council, which responds to the Council’s critics: Vatican II: The Crisis and the Promise (Cincinnati, OH: Servant Books, 2005). 7. For background to the role of the periti and to Ratzinger’s own role, see, for example, Karl Heinz Neufeld, SJ, “In the Service of the Council: Bishops and Theologians at the Second Vatican Council (for Cardinal Henri de Lubac on His Ninetieth Birthday),” trans.