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Roman Catholicism after Vatican II / Robert A. Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Robert A., 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--History.
- Catholic Church.
- History.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- The second Vatican Council, which concluded in December 1965, inaugurated a reformation process in the Catholic Church that continues to this day. Grounding his discussion in the documents that came out of Vatican II, Robert Burns addresses four critical issues that the Church faces: the Roman Catholic understanding of Jesus Christ, authority within the Church, Catholicism as a global religion, and the validity of other religions in relation to the Christian claim that salvation through Jesus is unique and final.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Jesus in Contemporary Catholic Though 5
- Jesus: The Son of God 5
- The New Testament 6
- The Life of Jesus 8
- The Resurrection 9
- Explicit Christology 11
- Implicit Christology 12
- The Early Church 12
- The Early Christian Period 13
- Christological Councils 14
- The Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.) 14
- The First Council of Constantinople (381 A.D.) 14
- The Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) 15
- The Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.) 15
- The Second Council of Constantinople (553 A.D.) 16
- The Third Council of Constantinople (680-681 A.D.) 16
- Christology in the Middle Ages 17
- St. Anselm of Canterbury 17
- St. Thomas Aquinas 18
- Contemporary Catholic Christology 19
- Recent Advances 19
- Christology "From Above"; Christology "From Below" 20
- The Humanity of Jesus 20
- Other Developments in Post-Vatican II Christology 23
- Liberation Christologies 24
- Feminist Christologies 24
- Ecological Christologies 25
- The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith 26
- The Jesus Seminar 27
- Catholicism and the Historical
- Critical Method 30
- The Five Gospels of the Jesus Seminar 31
- Four Distinctive Aspects and Critiques of Each 31
- Iconoclastic Translation 31
- Color-Coding of Jesus's Sayings 31
- The Gospel of Thomas 33
- Dedication to Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, and David Strauss 34
- Specific Criteria and a Critique of Each 34
- Compartmentalizing of Evidence 37
- Historical Methodology and the Resurrection of Jesus 38
- Modern Historical Research and the Jesus of History 41
- Chapter 2 Authority in the Church 45
- The Development of Papal Authority 47
- The Meaning of "Collegiality": The Role of Bishops 50
- The Selection of Bishops 54
- The Priests' Council (Senate) 55
- Pastoral Councils (Diocesan and Parish) 56
- The Priesthood 58
- Priestly Celibacy 62
- Women and the Priesthood 65
- The Permanent Diaconate 67
- Religious Orders and Congregations 70
- The Laity 71
- The Local Parish 75
- Democratization of Structures 78
- Chapter 3 Catholicism as a Global Church: The Problem of Inculturation 83
- Historical Examples of Inculturation 86
- Saints Cyril and Methodius 86
- Matteo Ricci and the Chinese Rites 88
- Inculturation and Recent Church Teachings 91
- Pope Pius XII 91
- Pope John XXIII 91
- Vatican II 92
- Pope Paul VI 95
- Pope John Paul II 97
- Problems Relating to Inculturation 98
- Cultural Relativism 98
- Canon Law 100
- Liberation Theology and Inculturation 100
- Basic Christian Communities and Inculturation 104
- Basic Christian Communities 104
- Liberation Theology and Inculturation 107
- Inculturation in the United States 110
- Recent Inculturation in the United States 112
- The Question of the Other: Multiculturalism in the Local Church 117
- Hispanics in the United States 118
- Hispanic American Theology 122
- Chapter 4 Catholicism and the World Religions 127
- Earlier Attitudes Toward Other Religions 127
- Sacred Scripture 127
- Tradition 129
- New Insights into Non-Christian Religions 132
- The Twentieth Century and the Early Twenty-First Century 132
- A Non-Christian Objection 133
- Salvation History 134
- The Meaning of Revelation 136
- The Traditional Understanding of Revelation 137
- The Modern View of Revelation 138
- Vatican II: The Church and the World Religions 139
- The Non-Christian Religions: Means of Salvation 142
- Karl Rahner: The "Anonymous Christian" 143
- Rahner's Theory: Objections and a Response 149
- The Church and the World Religions: The Need for Dialogue 152
- Official Catholic Teaching Concerning Dialogue with Others 153
- The Importance of Dialogue 154
- Dialogue with Judaism 157
- Dialogue with Other Christians 158
- Dialogue in a Global Society 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0878408223
- 0878408231
- OCLC:
- 44868929
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