Dignitatis Humanae

Dignitatis Humanae
Author: Austin Flannery
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814649432

The sixteen official documents—constitutions, decrees, and declarations—of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008). As the worldwide Church continues to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Council (1962–65), there is a great need in college classrooms and parish faith formation groups—as well as for individuals—to again have access to these documents in contemporary English. As Flannery wrote in his introduction to the 1996 edition, “The translation of the texts of the Vatican documents in the present volume differs from that in the previous publication in two respects. It has been very considerably revised and, in place, corrected. It is also, to a very large extent, in inclusive language. “I say ‘to a very large extent,’ because we have used inclusive language in passages about men and women but not, however, in passages about God, except where the use of the masculine pronoun was easily avoidable.”

Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity

Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity
Author: David L. Schindler
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0802871550

In this Book David L. Schindier and Nicholas J. Healy Jr. promote a deeper understanding of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom - Dignitatis Humanae - which Pope Paul VI characterized as one of the greatest documents of Vatican II. In addition to presenting a new translation of the approved text of the Declaration, they make available for the first time in English the five schemas (drafts) of the document that were presented to the Council bishops leading up to the final version. The book also includes an original interpretive essay on Dignitatis Humanae by Schindier and an essay on the genesis and redaction history of the text by Healy. Book jacket.

Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty
Author: John T. Ford
Publisher: Studium
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Religious Liberty examines the thought of Pope Paul VI with respect to religious liberty in the light of the conciliar declaration, Dignitatis Humanae. The essays approach the Second Vatican Council's teaching on religious liberty from a variety of perspectives--historical, sociological, ecumenical, and theological--and discuss its importance in church-state relations and ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. This volume, the sixteenth in its series, presents essays from the many participants at a 1993 symposium in Washington, D.C. Contributors include: John Beal, Riccardo Burigana, Giuseppe Camadini, Daniel Cowdin, Patricia De Ferrari, David Fleischacker, Patrick Granfield, Jeffrey Gros, James Cardinal Hickey, J. Bryan Hehir, Scott Huber, Christopher Kauffman, Robert T. Kennedy, Joseph Komonchak, Luigi Misto, James L. Nash, J. Robert Nelson, Pamela Martin Pelzel, Richard Regan, and Michael Stoeber. Originally published in English by The Instituto Paolo VI, the book is now available in the United States from CUA Press.

101 Questions and Answers on Saints

101 Questions and Answers on Saints
Author: George P. Evans
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809144426

An informational and entertaining text, this work offers readers a deeper sense of why the saints and the honoring of them has been influential in the lives of Catholics and others who strive to follow Jesus Christ and experience his love. (Catholic)

Dignitatis Humane Colloquium

Dignitatis Humane Colloquium
Author: Dialogos Dialogos Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533187345

This book contains the papers given at a historic conference on religious liberty that took place in 2015 in Norcia, Italy, in the presence of Cardinal Raymond Burke, under the auspices of the Dialogos Institute. 8 Catholic scholars from around the world met to discuss this most controversial of theological questions. Their papers focus on Vatican II's 'Declaration on Religious Liberty', Dignitatis humanae, setting it in its historical and doctrinal context. The speakers debate the meaning of this document and its compatibility with other teachings of the Catholic Church. This book contains the introductory address given by Cardinal Burke, and the speeches given by the participants, revised and in some cases augmented by themselves. It concludes with an original essay arising out of the papers and subsequent discussions, in which Dr Alan Fimister of the Dialogos Institute attempts an original synthesis of the insights of the various speakers.The 2015 Dignitatis humanae colloquium was a unique occasion which brought together orthodox Catholic speakers which greatly differing views on a complex and fascinating subject. No serious student of the Church's teaching on religious liberty, on the role of Church and State, or on the social kingship of Christ will want to be without this volume.

Catholicism and Religious Freedom

Catholicism and Religious Freedom
Author: Kenneth L. Grasso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742551930

The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching. In this timely new edited collection, Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt have assembled an impressive group of scholars to discuss the current meanings of one the Vatican's most important documents and its place in Catholic social thought. The theological issues brought forth in Dignitatis Humanae go to the heart of the contemporary debate about the nature, foundation, and scope of religious liberty. Here, the contributors to this volume give these considerations the serious and sustained attention they deserve.

Vatican II

Vatican II
Author: Matthew L Lamb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195332687

"In [book title], an international team of theologians offers a different reading of the documents from Vatican II. The Council was indeed putting forth a vision for the future of the Church, but that vision was grounded in two millennia of tradition. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that Vatican II's documents are a development from an established antecedent in the Roman Catholic Church."--Back cover.

Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue

Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue
Author: John C. Cavadini
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532652119

What does Jesus have to do with Buddha? What does Muhammad have to do with Krishna? One of the most important tasks for theology in the twenty-first century is interreligious dialogue. Given the rapid process of globalization and the surge of information via the Internet, travel, and library networking today, interreligious dialogue has become a necessary element within Christian theology that no longer can be avoided. Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue features eleven essays, plus an extensive introduction, that exercise a live conversation between religious others. Divided into four thematic sections--(1) Catholic approaches to interreligious dialogue, (2) dialogues between Judaism and Christianity, (3) dialogues between Islam and Christianity, and (4) dialogues between Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity--this volume conducts a sustained theological reflection on the current state of interreligious dialogue by signaling its hopeful promises and unrelenting challenges. The reader will be invited to encounter the religious other firsthand and put his or her most cherished theological assumptions to the test. This book aims to provoke an expansion of horizons for theological imagination as it exposes the basic dialectic of identity and difference as played out in the interaction between diverse religious beliefs, practices, and experiences.

Modern Catholic Social Teaching

Modern Catholic Social Teaching
Author: Kenneth R. Himes
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 1015
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1626165157

Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching available. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, it provides insight into the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social thought leading up to the "modern" era, which is generally accepted as beginning in 1891 with the publication of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. The book also includes a review of how Catholic social teaching has been received in the United States and offers an informed look at the shortcomings and questions that future generations must address. This second edition includes revised and updated essays as well as two new commentaries: one on Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate and one on Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si'. An outstanding reference work for anyone interested in studying and understanding the key documents that make up the central corpus of modern Catholic social teaching.

The Reception of Vatican II

The Reception of Vatican II
Author: Matthew L. Lamb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190625805

A sequel to Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition (OUP 2008), The Reception of Vatican II shows how the Council has been received and interpreted over the course of the more than fifty years since it concluded. The meaning of the Second Vatican Council has been fiercely contested since before it was even over, and since its completion has seen a battle for the soul of the Church waged through the interpretation of Council documents. Each essay in this volume looks at how one of those documents has been interpreted in the post-Vatican II era and points the way forward for its future reception.