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MODERN CATHOLICISM
This comprehensive and authoritadve survey provides an indispensable resource for all concerned with the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in the world of the 1990s.
When Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in 1962, he could not have foreseen the dramatic changes in Catholic thought and practice that would result. Its influence has reached into every area of Catholic hfe, and many of its decisions continue to be hotly debated by people of all religious persuasions in all parts of the world. In this sweeping new study, an international team of leading Catholic scholars provides a critical assessment of John XXIII, his immediate predecessors and successors, the Council's background and history, and the sixteen documents it issued. But Vatican II also left behind many unresolved controversies, such as those concerning birth control and the law of clerical celibacy, and these also are examined,... Tovább

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MODERN CATHOLICISM
This comprehensive and authoritadve survey provides an indispensable resource for all concerned with the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in the world of the 1990s.
When Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council in 1962, he could not have foreseen the dramatic changes in Catholic thought and practice that would result. Its influence has reached into every area of Catholic hfe, and many of its decisions continue to be hotly debated by people of all religious persuasions in all parts of the world. In this sweeping new study, an international team of leading Catholic scholars provides a critical assessment of John XXIII, his immediate predecessors and successors, the Council's background and history, and the sixteen documents it issued. But Vatican II also left behind many unresolved controversies, such as those concerning birth control and the law of clerical celibacy, and these also are examined, along with other crucial issues like the role of women, marriage and divorce, abortion, homosexuality, and church-state relations.
Modem Catholicism also provides up-to-date accounts of the Council's impact in different parts of the world, giving full weight to the emergence of Liberation Theology in Latin America, to the tensions between Church teaching and traditional culture in Africa, and to the Church's role in the revolutionary events that continue to transform Eastern Europe.
These and many more aspects of modern Catholicism are covered in this lively and informative survey. Published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the Council in 1965, the book itself will help to keep the spirit of Vatican II alive in the years ahead.
Adrian Hastings is Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include A History of English Christianity, 1920-1985 (Collins \9%6), African Catholicism (SCM 1989) and The Theology of a Protestant Catholic {SCM 1990). Vissza