From Trent to Vatican II: Historical and Theological Investigations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195178076 ISBN 13: 9780195178074

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The second Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII between 1962 and 1965. It marked a fundamental shift toward the modern Church and its far-reaching innovations replaced or radically changed many of the practices, rules, and attitudes that had dominated Catholic life and culture since the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. In this book a distinguished team of historians and theologians offers an impartial investigation of the relationship between Vatican II and Trent by examining such issues as Eucharistic theology, liturgical change, clerical reform, the laity, the role of women, marriage, confession, devotion to Mary, and interfaith understanding. As the first book to present such a comprehensive study of the connection between the two great Councils, this is an invaluable resource for students, theologians, and church historians, as well as for bishops, clergy, and religious educators.

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond F. Bulman is Professor of Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at Saint John's University. Frederick J. Parrella is Associate Professor of Theology in the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University. They are co-editors of two scholarly volumes: Paul Tillich: A New Catholic Assessment and Religion in the New Millennium: Theology in the Spirit of Paul Tillich.

Review:

"Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike."--from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia

"The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it."--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University

"No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity."--Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

"Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike."--from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia

"The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it."--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University

"No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity."--Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

"The articles are well supported with footnotes, so that much bibliographical material is provided. The Index, which covers subjects as well as persons and places, is excellent; long entries are helpfully subdivided into sub-categories. The essays are both scholarly regarding the past and replete with reflections pertinent to the Roman Catholic Church and the life and mission of Christianity today." --Ecclesiology

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195178076
• ISBN 13: 9780195178074
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Bulman Raymond F., Parrella Frederick J.