1960s

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Kirwan
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Future ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church

This chapter chronicles the spread and internationalization of the thought of the nouveaux théologiens and the triumph of ressourcement thought during the conciliar years of the 1960s. The discussion of this internationalization of French Left Catholic thought begins with the particular influence it had on Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli and Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Popes Paul VI and John XXIII, respectively, who guided the Church through Vatican II, the former convening it and the latter bringing it to conclusion. Other key ecclesiastical reformers such as Marcel Lefebvre and Louis Bouyer are examined as well in respect to the influence of French thought on their development. Finally, the turmoil after the Council is discussed and in particular the very different reactions the nouveaux théologiens had to the progressive years that characterized the post-Conciliar era.

scholarly journals BERPIJAK DI BUMI – BERPIHAK KEPADA MANUSIA (Mandat dari Gaudium et Spes)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Paul Budi Kleden
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Gaudium et Spes is a revolutionary document of Vatican II which can still inspire the Church now and in the future. This document is revolutionary in the sense that it deals with problems, issues and ideas that had never before become the agenda of any Council in the Catholic Church. Gaudium et Spes concretizes what John XXIII named aggiornamento, a process of contextualising the Christian heritage, through which the Church opens itself up to the modern world. This document is also revolutionary because it is entirely a product of the conciliar process of the Council itself. This article presents the process of drafting the document and discusses some issues that are relevant for the Church today and in the future. <b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> proses, Gereja, dunia modern, solidaritas, keadilan ekonomi, martabat manusia, perdamaian.

Modern Christian Liturgy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan D. Spinks
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Main Line ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Liturgical Movement ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Church

What exactly is meant by the term “Modern Christian Liturgy”? At one level it could mean any recent worship service in any church, for example, the Divine Liturgy of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox churches celebrated last week. Although a modern celebration, with adaptations made to the rite amongst the diaspora, the rite itself was formulated in the late medieval era and has much older roots in Egypt. Sometimes the term applies to the most recent official liturgical services of a particular main line denomination growing out of the Liturgical Movement, such as the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic rites compared to the so-called “Tridentine” rite represented by the missal of John XXIII, or the Church of England’s Common Worship 2000 rites compared to those of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Here, the term is reserved for those newer forms of service that have appeared officially or unofficially in contemporary Euro-Atlantic protestant, evangelical, and charismatic churches in the 20th century, frequently adopting the current fashions of popular music for worship songs, and incorporating modern technology.

Maritain and Mounier: A Secret Quarrel Over the Future of the Church

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hellman
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Nineteen Thirties ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

The hesitancy of French Catholic intellectuals to engage in public quarrels, and speak ill of their dead, has led to the forgetting of arguments and divergences of great importance to the background of Vatican II. It has been widely assumed that France's two most influential Christian intellectuals of the mid-century, Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier, worked hand in glove to promote what one historian has called a common “French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World.”* In fact, however, letters and diaries only known after the two principals were dead, have revealed deep differences between the two men at a decisive point in the evolution of modern French intellectual life. Maritain's reservations about the left-wing Catholicism and ecumenism of his younger friends remain quite relevant in our own day. In fact Maritain had, and kept, serious reservations about the new kind of Catholicism which Mounier and his new review Esprit articulated in the early nineteen-thirties but kept them private largely because of the secret danger of a known ecclesiastical condemnation for Esprit.

From Confession to Reconciliation, Vatican II to 2015

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church

This chapter delineates the dramatic decline between 1960 and 2015 in the practice of sacramental penance and other penitential practices and a weakened consciousness of the biblical penitential language associated with the practices. The American cultural revolution of the 1960s and the paradigmatic shift in theology at the Second Vatican Council influenced those developments. The post-conciliar church, however, created new sacramental rites of confession that emphasized the social and ecclesial dimensions of sin and reconciliation, hoping to generate a renewed penitential consciousness. A loss of the sense of sin, though, made it very difficult for popes, bishops, and priests to revive the penitential confessional tradition. In its long history, the church experienced major changes in the theology and practice of penance, but the rapidity of the change in the fifty years after Vatican II was unprecedented, with the possible exception of the changes that took place during the Protestant Reformation.

scholarly journals Missional church and local constraints: A Dutch perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rein Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Missional Church ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Church

The missional church concept promises to guide local churches in the direction of a new identity and mission. It is a response to a sense of ecclesiological and congregational urgency that is felt all over the world. In Africa, North America and Europe, churches and local faith communities have been challenged by the changes in the religious state of affairs since the 1960s. Whether we still call it �secularisation� or rephrase it as �differentiated transformation�, the face of religion is changing globally. In many parts of the world, this raises a feeling of crisis that gives way to the redef nition of the mission and purpose of the church. �Missional church�, however, is a precarious concept. Nobody disagrees with the intention but can it be more than an inspiring vision? In order to realise this vision, a multi-layered and multi-dimensional analysis of �culture� is essential. We should move the analysis beyond the philosophical interpretation of relatively abstract and evasive macro-level processes, such as �modernity� and �post-modernity�. The future of the missional church depends on a differentiated and empirical, informed perspective on culture. For this purpose, this article proposes the concept of ecology: A system of diverse populations, including populations of congregations and faith communities, that interacts with these populations and with their specific environments. Preparing a missional congregation for the future should be accompanied with a thorough empirical investigation into the ecology of the congregation. We should be thinking intensively about and looking for vital ecologies.

scholarly journals VATICANO II: UMA VISÃO DE FUTURO – UMA PEDAGOGIA DA FÉ – UMA MANEIRA DE RESOLVER QUESTÕES PARTICULARES

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (126) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Christoph Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
The Church

O desafio atual da recepção do Concílio Vaticano II reside numa leitura prospectiva de seus textos, em busca de um potencial de futuro que só pode ser discernido hoje em diálogo com nosso diagnóstico do momento presente. Tal programa de hermenêutica prospectiva supõe que se reconheça o caráter transitório do Concílio e que ele seja compreendido como um gigantesco “processo de aprendizagem”. O autor convida a melhor compreender a visão “programática” da Constituição Lumen Gentium, que apresenta a Igreja como figura de futuro. Ele mostra que esta visão exige uma pedagogia da fé como pedagogia de conversão e, enfim, propõe uma maneira de se aproximar de quatro questões particulares.ABSTRACT: The current challenge of the reception of Vatican II is a prospective reading of their texts, in search of a future potential that can only be discerned today in dialogue with our diagnosis of the present moment. Such a program of prospective hermeneutics assumes the recognizing of the transitory character of the Council and that it will be understood as a grand “learning process”. The author invites the reader to better understand the “programmatic” vision of the Constitution Lumen Gentium, that presents the Church as a figure of the future. He shows that this vision requires a pedagogy of the faith as a pedagogy of conversion and, finally, he proposes a way of approaching four particular issues. 

scholarly journals A mulher em documentos eclesiais

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (252) ◽  
pp. 883
Author(s):  
Olga Consuelo Vélez Caro
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Church

A participação da mulher na vida da Igreja é um fato inegável. Porém, como na sociedade civil, a mulher herdou o estereótipo de ser destinada unicamente “à procriação e aos trabalhos domésticos”. Isto tem impedido que, muitas vezes, ela seja considerada “sujeito” da vida eclesial. Este artigo parte desta realidade e apresenta, a partir de alguns documentos do ensino papal (Leão XIII, Bento XV, Pio XI, Pio XII, João XXIII, Paulo VI e João Paulo II), a maneira como se tem concebido a mulher e seus papéis na vida social e eclesial. Destacam-se as contribuições dos documentos do Vaticano II, de Medellín e de Puebla na superação de estereótipos em relação à mulher. Estes documentos, na verdade, oferecem um horizonte libertador, que pode contribuir decisivamente para outra concepção do papel da mulher na vida eclesial. Porém, estas mudanças não serão desencadeadas pelo mandato das autoridades oficiais, mas sim, pela iniciativa das próprias mulheres.Abstract: Women’s participation in the Church life is an undeniable fact. However, in the Church as in civil society, women have inherited the stereotype of being destined only “to procreation and housework”. This has often prevented them from being considered “subjects” of ecclesial life. Starting from this reality, this article discusses, with the help of some documents of the Magisterium (Leo XIII, Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II), how women and their roles have been interpreted in social and ecclesial life. It is important to note the specific contributions of the Vatican II documents and those of Medellin and Puebla to the struggle against the usual stereotypes related to women. Indeed, these documents offer a liberating horizon that can contribute decisively for another view of the role of women in ecclesial life. Nevertheless, these changes will not be unchained by the official authorities’ mandate but by the initiative of women themselves.

Karl Rahner, Vatican II, and the Shape of the Church

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Declan Marmion
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

Karl Rahner had a pivotal influence on Vatican II during the preparatory phases, at the Council itself, and subsequent to the Council. This article asks how Rahner shaped the ecclesiology of the Council. It shows how many of the council’s emphases bear the hallmark of Rahner: the church as sacramentum mundi, the importance of the local church, the issue of collegiality, the church of sinners, and the priority of the pastoral. It will be argued that Rahner’s acute theological prescience in identifying issues facing the church into the future has been accurate and resonant with Pope Francis’s current project of ecclesial reform.

Mass Exodus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bullivant
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Pope John Xxiii

In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that ‘a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour’. Desiring ‘to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful’, the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church’s liturgy. Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak for themselves—or seem to. In America, only 15% of cradle Catholics say that they attend Mass on a weekly basis; meanwhile, 35% no longer even tick the ‘Catholic box’ on surveys. In Britain, of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have ‘no religion’. But is this all the fault of Vatican II, and its runaway reforms? Or are wider social, cultural, and moral forces primarily to blame? Catholicism is not the only Christian group to have suffered serious declines since the 1960s. If anything Catholics exhibit higher church attendance, and better retention, than most Protestant churches do. If Vatican II is not the cause of Catholicism’s crisis, might it instead be the secret to its (comparative) success? Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, it also offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.

scholarly journals The “Johannine Prayer” that Never Really Was

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray K. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Pope John Xxiii

Since 1965, a moving “prayer of contrition” for the sins of Catholics against Jews throughout the centuries has circulated in various forms and languages in numerous Jewish and Christian publications and Web sites. The prayer, allegedly composed by the dying Pope John XXIII for worldwide recitation, was already called into question in the 1960s by commentators close to the late Pope familiar with his writings. In more recent years, investigations into the authorship of the prayer have concluded with reasonable certainty that its origins actually lie with the Irish-born Jesuit priest and scholar Malachi Martin, a Vatican II insider whose concern for promoting Jewish-Catholic relations apparently extended to the point of “ghost-writing” this prayer. This article examines both the popularity and influence of this prayer, and some of the evidence that points to Martin (and not John XXIII) as its source.

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