Unfinished Journey: The Church 40 Years After Vatican 2
Essays for John Wilkins
Unfinished Journey: The Church 40 Years After Vatican 2
Essays for John Wilkins
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826471000
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 01/12/2003
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
The Second Vatican Council, which ended thirty-five years ago, promised so much: a new vision of a reformed Church aware of its social, theological and ecumenical responsibilities; a truly conciliar Church with collegial structures. However, this vision seems to have evaporated and many of the promised reforms have been truncated or have not happened at all. The Vatican remains intensely bureaucratic. Theologians are silenced and the effect of clerical scandal seems to have led Church leaders to dig in and see the deposit of faith as something static. Once again the Church believes it has a monopoly on the truth and millions of people feel marginalized and excluded. Britain's long-established Catholic weekly, The Tablet , has fought for the spirit and values of Vatican II in a way that no other journal has done. It has criticised the Church (Humanae Vitae) and has condemned corruption, but has also supported the Church where it has been right to do so.These essays come from a truly international cast of contributors who cover the Church of Vatican II but above all give us prophesy of where this vision may still lead the Church and the people of God.
This is a Church semper reformanda.
Introduction by Austen Ivereigh
About the contributors
Part I Taking stock
1 The Second Vatican Council: of happy memory - and hope? Nicholas Lash
2 The "Open Church" 40 years later: a reckoning Michael Novak
3 Tradition and reaction: historical resources for a contemporary renewal Eamon Duffy
Part II The Unfinished Journey
4 On Having the Courage of One's Convictions Hans Küng
5 Images of the Church: from "perfect society" to "God's people on pilgrimage" Rembert Weakland
6 Wanted: the other half of the Church Joan Chittister
7 Augustine, Aquinas or the Gospel sine glossa? Divisions over Gaudium et spes Joseph Komonchak
8 Power and powerlessness in the Church: the chance for renewal Timothy Radcliffe
9 Religious freedom: the limits of progress Michael Walsh
10 Where does Catholic social teaching go from here? Clifford Longley
11 The Scientific Search for the Soul John Cornwell
12 The place of philosophy in the life of the Church: a time for renewal John Haldane
13 Captivated ambivalence: how the Church copes (or not) with the media Lavinia Byrne
14 The Church and the media : beyond Inter mirifica Alain Woodrow
Part III Signposts from beyond
15 A lead from Asia Tom C. Fox
16 How base communities started: Paraguay's Christian Agrarian Leagues Margaret Hebblethwaite
17 Truth beyond division: Eastern meditation and Western Christianity Shirley de Boulay
18 Oscar Romero, bishop-martyr and model of Church Julian Filochowski
Part IV Postscript
19 A tribute to John Wilkins Hugo Young
'the book is a worthwhile...collection...it contains some valuable insights on the unfinished journey of Vatican II.' Brennan R./em>, --Sanford Lakoff "Horizons "
