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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825610203321

Autore

Gabriel Karl

Titolo

Catholicism and Religious Freedom : Renewing the Church in the Second Vatican Council / Karl Gabriel, Christian Spieß, Katja Winkler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2018

ISBN

3-657-78900-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

230.2

Soggetti

1962-1965

Aufklärung

Zweites Vatikanisches Konzil

Zivilgesellschaft

Werte

Säkularisierung

Religionsfreiheit

Politik

Gewalt

Katholiken

katholische Kirche

Katholizismus

Lehre

Moderne

Modernisierung

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Foreword / José Casanova -- Introduction / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Dignitatis humanae: Development of the Text / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Modernity – Religion – Catholicism / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Religious Freedom / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Continuity – Change – Break? / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Factors of Change / Karl Gabriel



, Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- The Path to Recognizing Religious Freedom as a Two-stage Learning Process / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Back Matter -- References / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler -- Acknowledgements / Karl Gabriel , Christian Spiess and Katja Winkler.

Sommario/riassunto

Just about fifty years ago, in its declaration on religious freedom at the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church programmatically dispensed with political coercion as a means of enforcing its claim to truth. This act of self-imposed restriction with regard to religious claims to truth is exceptional in the history of religions. It is still extremely difficult to explain even today how such a traditional institution as the Catholic Church could have altered its position so fundamentally. In this volume the authors dispute how the Church came to its position, what the reasons and motives were for its repositioning, what shape this process of change took, and the steps involved in the change: What were the characteristics, circumstances and dynamics of the path of Catholicism to recognizing religious freedom?