The church in the modern world : Gaudium et spes then and now / Michael G. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman, and Eileen Burke-Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawler, Michael G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vatican Council--(2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis.

Vatican Council.

Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis (Vatican Council).

Church and the world.

Physical Description:

vii, 205 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2014]

Summary:

Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world. In this volume, the authors explore the historical origins of Gaudium et Spes, its impact on the Church's ecclesial self-understanding, and its implications for doing Catholic theological ethics for the specific ethical issues of marriage, social justice, politics, and peacebuilding. The Church in the Modern World engages in the ongoing communal discernment of the aggiornamento sought by the council's convener, Pope John XXIII, seeking to bring the Church up to date in the twenty-first century. On the document's fiftieth anniversary, this book celebrates the contributions of Gaudium et Spes as a fundamental gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church's evolving self-understanding as a pilgrim people of God. Book jacket.

Contents:

Gaudium et spes: the history

The ecclesiological focus of Gaudium et spes

Gaudium et spes: perspectivism, conscience, and ethical method

Gaudium et spes: marriage

Being Christ-ian and the service of love and justice

The political community and peacebuilding.

Notes:

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814682708

0814682707

OCLC:

878504721