Looking at Vatican I's Pastor aeternus 150 Years Later: A Fresh Consideration of the Council's Significance Yesterday and Today
Many pressing issues facing the church today require a deeper appreciation of Vatican I, marking its one hundred and fiftieth year. We can now return it to its context and accept its "incompleteness" rather than insist upon its "wrongness." The distance provided by time shows tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Horizons
Year: 2019, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-347 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KCB Papacy KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church NBN Ecclesiology |
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Pastor Aeternus
B papal infallibility B Vatican I B Ecclesiology |
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| Summary: | Many pressing issues facing the church today require a deeper appreciation of Vatican I, marking its one hundred and fiftieth year. We can now return it to its context and accept its "incompleteness" rather than insist upon its "wrongness." The distance provided by time shows that its teachings are not as rigid or extreme as they are often perceived to be, but rather stand open to significantly broader interpretations. Pastor Aeternus has faced Vatican II, the social leveling brought about by democracy and the mass media, and an erosion of confidence in hierarchical institutions. Yet the council cannot be left behind. This essay's goal is to contextualize Vatican I's voice so that we can hear what it intended to say in its own day and see how it might contribute to some of our own most urgent conversations today. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2019.57 |