RT Book
T1 Vatican II on church-state relations: what did the Council teach, and what's wrong with it?
A1 Ciftci, M. Y.
LA English
PP Cham
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1892136449
AB Should religion and politics be kept apart? What should be the relationship between the church and the state? M.Y. Ciftci answers these questions by studying the most important event in the recent history of the Catholic Church: The Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The book provides a new interpretation of the Council's teaching on church-state relations to better appreciate its flaws and need for reform. By paying attention to the (often overlooked) importance given by the Council to the lay apostolate, it reveals how the Council did not reform, as is often thought, but retained a flawed conception of the laity's role in politics. It then proposes a new framework for understanding church-state relations using the ressourcement method of returning to scripture and tradition, and by a critical dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan and various Protestant biblical scholars of the powers in the New Testament. Ciftci shows how fruitful a self-consciously ecumenical approach can be for political theology. As most ressourcement theologians have overlooked political issues, and since ecumenical theology rarely touches on issues of church-state relations, this work makes an original contribution to the ressourcement project and to ecumenism. --Book cover
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BX1790
SN 3-031-56705-6
SN 978-3-031-56705-6
K1 Vatican Council : (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)
K1 Church and state : Catholic Church
K1 Church and state : Catholic Church : History : 20th century
K1 Église et État - Église catholique
K1 Église et État - Église catholique - Histoire - 20e siècle