Church and World at the Second Vatican Council: The Significance of Gaudium et Spes

In its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World the Second Vatican Council put behind it the rejection of modernity that characterised the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the world in the previous 150 years. Forty years after the publication of Gaudium et Spes, this art...

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Main Author: McEvoy, James Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2006
In: Pacifica
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-57
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Summary:In its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World the Second Vatican Council put behind it the rejection of modernity that characterised the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the world in the previous 150 years. Forty years after the publication of Gaudium et Spes, this article seeks to articulate the theological understanding of the church-world relationship contained in the final text of the document by examining the sequence of schemas which led to it.
ISSN:1839-2598
Contains:Enthalten in: Pacifica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1030570X0601900103