Reading the Signs of the Times through a Hermeneutics of Recognition: Gaudium et Spes and Its Meaning for a Learning Church
The pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes of Vatican II represents a significant shift for the church, not only ecclesiologically but also intellectually, with deep consequences for the culture of the church and especially for Catholic institutions of higher education. This change has clear implicat...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2016]
|
| In: |
Horizons
Year: 2016, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 332-350 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Education
B core curriculum B Gaudium et Spes B Vatican II B Humanization B Liberation B Recognition |
| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes of Vatican II represents a significant shift for the church, not only ecclesiologically but also intellectually, with deep consequences for the culture of the church and especially for Catholic institutions of higher education. This change has clear implications for the core curriculum of a learning Catholic Church-and of every learning Catholic. In the "modern cosmopolitan culture" of the church of Vatican II, the liberal arts have a central place. The ability to make a judgment on "the signs of the times" requires a cultural awareness that is the opposite of utilitarianism. Care for the "common good" requires "core knowledge" because the world-as it is presented in Gaudium et Spes-is nontransparent, ambiguous, and ever changing. In this sense the pastoral constitution is an antipositivistic manifesto for humanization that needs to be rediscovered. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2016.109 |