Catholicism Opening to the World and Other Confessions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. How a Church Opened Its Doors

      • Gerard Mannion

      Pages 3-14

   3. Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Cliché—Vatican II as a “Pastoral Council”

      • John O’Malley

      Pages 15-21

3. Opening to the World—The Turn to Moral Mission and Social Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Benedict XV: A Most Unexpected Architect of Vatican II

      • Agnes de Dreuzy

      Pages 25-42

   3. Gaudium et Spes and the Opening to the World

      • Charles E. Curran

      Pages 43-58

   4. Economic Activity in Gaudium et Spes: Opening to the World or Theological Vocation?

      • Matthew A. Shadle

      Pages 59-75

4. Women and Vatican II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Women During and After Vatican II

      • Patricia Madigan

      Pages 79-96

   3. Opening to the World: A Reformed Feminist Posture of Openness

      • Mary McClintock Fulkerson

      Pages 97-105

   4. Tensions Over “Feminism,” US Women Religious, and the Contested Reception of Vatican II

      • Anne E. Patrick

      Pages 107-118

   5. Women and the Art of Magisterium: Reflections on Vatican II and the Postconciliar Church

      • Gerard Mannion

      Pages 119-147

5. Inculturation: The Contextual Reception of the Council

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. We Are the Church: Church in Dialogue in Papua

      • Jan Nielen

      Pages 151-165

   3. Mary as Type and Model of Church in Lumen Gentium: Reception in Asia

      • Agnes M. Brazal

      Pages 167-184

   4. From The Cardinal to The Shoes of the Fisherman: Hollywood’s Curious Fascination with Vatican II

      • Paul G. Monson

      Pages 185-201

6. Ecumenical Readings of Vatican II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Bridges and Doors: An Ecumenical Reading of Vatican II

      • Dale T. Irvin

      Pages 205-216

   3. Vatican II: A Shift in the Attitude of the Roman Catholic Church Toward the Reformation Churches?—A Protestant Perspective

      • Dagmar Heller

      Pages 217-235

This volume explores how Catholicism began and continues to open its doors to the wider world and to other confessions in embracing ecumenism, thanks to the vision and legacy of the Second Vatican Council. It explores such themes as the twentieth century context preceding the council; parallels between Vatican II and previous councils; its distinctively pastoral character; the legacy of the council in relation to issues such as church-world dynamics, as well as to ethics, social justice, economic activity. Several chapters discuss the role of women in the church before, during, and since the council. Others discern inculturation in relation to Vatican II. The book also contains a wide and original range of ecumenical considerations of the council, including by and in relation to Free Church, Reformed, Orthodox, and Anglican perspectives. Finally, it considers the Council’s ongoing promise and remaining challenges with regard to ecumenical issues, including a groundbreaking essay on the future of ecumenical dialogue by Cardinal Walter Kasper.

• protestant
• Benedict
• christianity
• papacy
• rome
• reformation

• University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  Vladimir Latinovic

• Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, USA

  Gerard Mannion

• Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome, Italy

  Jason Welle, O.F.M.

Vladimir Latinovic teaches Patristics and Church History at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Gerard Mannion holds the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, USA. He is also Founding Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

Jason Welle, O.F.M., is Dean of Studies at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome, Italy.

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