TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bressolette,Claude
TI  - Reassessing Vatican II Fifty Years Later
PY  - 2012///.
							
N1  - 56
N2  - Jean XXIII’s call for a new council came as a surprise. The avowed intent was to elucidate the Church’s doctrine and to give hope to people of good will, correcting errors by means of ”the medicine of mercy“ rather than that of severity. Paul VI took upon himself to carry out his predecessor’s desired pastoral action, outlining four primary objectives: The Church as a Mystery; Renovation versus Tradition; Unity within Diversity; The Church’s mission to promote dialogue with the world. The lifting of the 1054 mutual excommunications was a highly appraised moment during this ”New Pentecost“. Conciliar documents show great inner consistency. The uniqueness of Vatican II is evidenced in the desire to send a message to the world, the invitations that were extended to Orthodox and Protestant observers and so on. The so called ”inductive“ theological process is initiated to examine the ”signs of the times“. Vatican II drastically altered the Church’s stance towards the modern world. One need only compare Pius IX’s Syllabus of 1864 alongside Paul VI’s Ecclesiam suam encyclical of 1964 to be convinced. The exercise of collegial responsibility was yet another adopted innovation, though not without encountering some opposition. Other salient points included the decree on ecumenism, the decree on Catholic Oriental Churches, the Christ centered orientation of the relation between the Church and Revelation, the liturgical reform, as well as the Church’s new approach to Religious Freedom and the New Evangelization
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-ethique-et-de-theologie-morale-2012-3-page-9?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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