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...This chapter examines how Vatican II (1962–65) changed the way that the Roman Catholic church conceived of its relationship with “others.” The council re-envisioned the church’s once-fortified internal and external borders as porous, a change manifested vividly at the parish level...

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... or a non-dialogical conception of God the Father. The Honorary Consul (1973), in its dynamic engagement with Vatican II, acquires no singular collection of perspectives, values, or principles. In Monsignor Quixote (1982), Greene is not committed to a particular objective...

...This chapter examines Catholic literature after Vatican II. It suggests that because the panegyric discourse of Vatican II strives to embrace such a broad vision of the Church, it tends to laud the social dimension of the faith. In contrast to this rhetoric of individuality, Vatican II emphasized...

...Mary Henold explores the changing character of the National Conference of Catholic Women during the 1960s and 1970s, with particular reference to its executive director Margaret Mealey. By contrasting the new attitudes among Catholic women that arose in the aftermath of Vatican II with those...

...Anthony O’Mahony’s chapter provides a fresh portrait of the Islamic scholar and Catholic convert, Louis Massignon, which substantiates his critical influence in French Catholic intellectual thought and the Arab world from the interwar years through to Vatican II. Massignon was a formative influence...

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... Patrick O'Connor John Vatican II Sister Formation Conference Vocations Sisters of Christian Doctrine The mood at Marydell was somber in February 1957, Sister Virginia Johnson reported. “Thursday morning at conference,” she wrote, “Mother Elizabeth told us that Reverend Mother was not expected to live...

...This chapter discusses Pope Benedict XVI as an interpreter of Vatican II. The young Joseph Ratzinger was present at all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 as a theological expert. In 1981 he became prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post he held...

...Chapter seven examines the nature of religious life following the tumultuous decades of renewal. This chapter explores how the community lived and worked as the meaning of religious life shifted. In a post-Vatican II world and Church, women religious have reinvented or reimagined their places...

... on the developments within the Mercy congregation, the Catholic Church, and American society in the twentieth century, particularly influential movements like the Sister Formation Conference, the renewal of Vatican II, and the civil rights and feminist movements....

...Samuel Thomas explores the role played by John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit in helping develop a new understanding of the lay apostolate in the Vatican II era. Through Dearden’s pronouncements and actions at Synod 69, in the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and at the 1976 lay congress known...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the influence of the metaphoric representation of the Church as a body on Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). It states that in addition to its influence on theological inquiries, this metaphor...

...This chapter discusses the presentation of the Church as a body in the works of several writers. It suggests that most Catholic authors challenge the Church to take its own tradition very seriously. An example of this is Elizabeth Johnson's argument that Vatican II considers as basic doctrine...

...Through the lens of a present-day Parish Pastoral Council meeting, this chapter contrasts two attempts at solidarity propelled by Vatican II. The first was a 1965 attempt by Boston’s Richard Cardinal Cushing to provide pastoral intervention to “inner city” parishes through a missionary program...

... come to be used primarily in the context of Holy Communion, the reception of the Body and Blood of Christ. The discussion looks into the historical foundations of communion, the decline and revival of communion theology, the impact of the revived communion theology on Vatican II, and the personalist...

...Borrmans spent his life at PISAI, the Catholic centre for Islamic studies in Rome, after studies in his native France, Tunisia and Algeria. This chapter covers sixty years of engagement in the crucible of Christian-Muslim relations in the spirit of Vatican II as a member of the Missionaries...

... to Christian-Muslim relations. A range of theological themes naturally arose, such as the person of Jesus, the triune nature of God and the place of Islam in salvation. Importance is attached to the missionary experience leading to the Vatican II teaching in Nostra Aetate and the speeches...

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