To sanctify the world : the vital legacy of Vatican II

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Personal Author:

Weigel, George, 1951-

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First edition.

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xii, 353 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary:

"George Weigel, a leading Catholic intellectual, argues that the humanist teachings of the highly controversial Second Vatican Council are essential to the future of the Catholic church"--

Publication Info:

New York : Basic Books, 2022.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines

Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Catholic Church -- Doctrinal and controversial works

Bachikan Kōkaigi (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Catholic Church. (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Concile œcuménique Vatican (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Concile Vatican (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Concilio ecumenico vaticano (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Concilio Vaticano (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Concilium Vaticanum (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Majmaʻ al-Maskūnī al-Vātīkānī (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Sobór Watykański (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vaticà II (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatican 2 (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatican Ecumenical Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatican II (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vaticano II (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vaticanum 2 (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vaticanum II (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikan 2 (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikan II (Council) (1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikaneios Synodos (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikanisches Konzil (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikano susirinkimas (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikanski cerkveni zbor (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikánsky koncil (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikánský sněm (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatikanum (Council) (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatykansʹkyĭ Sobor (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vselensʹkyĭ Sobor Vatykansʹkyĭ (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965)

Concile du Vatican (2e : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)

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9780465094318

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Summary

A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future--and the world's

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled.

In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel explains the necessity of Vatican II and explores the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness. The Council's texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.

Written with insight and verve, To Sanctify the World recovers the true meaning of Vatican II as the template for a Catholicism that can propose a path toward genuine human dignity and social solidarity.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Weigel (The Next Pope), a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, examines the impact of the Second Vatican Council in this thorough chronicle. Through close readings of the council's decrees and declarations, Weigel explores why Pope John XXIII took the rare step of convening "all the world's Catholic bishops" in sessions that lasted from 1962 to 1965, as well as how the proceedings changed the Catholic church. The Second Vatican Council met to address the "challenge to Catholicism posed by the modern world," which included clerical infighting, reactionary papal policies, and the social dislocations caused by two world wars and the Cold War. Weigel suggests that the church was motivated by a desire to achieve a "revitalized western humanism" and by the belief that the "sacred liturgy should be reformed organically" by returning to its "medieval and patristic forms." The author challenges conventional readings of documents produced by the council, such as when he asserts that contrary to the populist reputation of the "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church," it largely preserves the church's formal hierarchy even as it emphasizes the laity's "responsibility" to spread the word of God. Weigel delivers a probing study of the figures and theologies that influenced Catholic policy, though his focus on Western European events gives little mention of how Catholic practices elsewhere influenced the outcome of the council. Still, there is much valuable work in this fluid reevaluation of Vatican II's origins and impact. (Oct.)

Kirkus Review

The history and legacy of the Second Vatican Council. In his latest, Catholic scholar Weigel, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of Letters to a Young Catholic, examines the ecumenical council that took place between 1962 and 1965. The author begins with a detailed yet concise exploration of the many global changes that led to the council. Though Pope John XXIII, "an essentially conservative and traditional pope," shocked the church by calling for a council, which hadn't taken place since 1870, it should have been clear that modern society--punctuated by world wars, the rise of communism, decolonization, and countless other factors--had changed the landscape so thoroughly that a fresh approach was vital for Catholic survival. Weigel writes that the ultimate purpose of the council was to "empower a revitalized Church to offer the modern world a path beyond incoherence--or, worse, self-destruction--through an encounter with Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God." Once it began, institutionalists lost their bid to steer the council's work toward less important matters of rules and administration. Instead, the council took a decidedly theological turn in order to answer the pressing question of "how God made his purposes known to humanity in a binding way that was authoritative for the Church over time." The council would be thoroughly Christocentric in nature and explore the church's role in a modern world through a Christian viewpoint. Weigel thoroughly analyzes the major documents that resulted from the council's decisions. He then discusses its lasting legacy, especially through the lens of two of its participants: popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Finally, he notes that a 1985 synod most clearly affirmed the meaning of Vatican II as a great gift of grace until "the Church lived fully the truth about itself as a communion of disciples in mission." A readable traditionalist appraisal. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

The Documents of the Second Vatican Council	p. xi
Introduction: Reimagining Vatican II	p. 1
Part I Why Vatican II was Necessary
1 Crisis? What Crisis?	p. 11
2 Modernity as Ideology	p. 18
3 The New Thirty Years War	p. 22
4 The End of Christendom	p. 31
5 The Renewal of the Catholic Mind	p. 36
6 What Kind of Church?	p. 63
7 What Kind of Council? To What Ends?	p. 72
Part II What Vatican II Taught
8 The Council's Distinctive Features	p. 85
9 John XXIII's Original Intention	p. 97
10 The Word of God Breaks Through the Silence	p. 112
The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
11 Sacrament of Authentic Human Community	p. 129
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
12 To Worship the One Worthy of Worship	p. 147
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
13 Design for a Christocentric Humanism	p. 161
The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
14 Truth, Liberty, and the Limits of State Power	p. 177
The Declaration on Religious Freedom
15 Witnesses and Missionaries	p. 196
The Council's Teaching on States of Life in the Church
16 From Plurality to Pluralism	p. 223
The Council's Teaching on the Eastern Catholic Churches, On Ecumenism, And On Non-Christian Religions
Part III The Keys to Vatican II
17 Jacques Maritain's Lament	p. 239
18 The Council Without Keys	p. 243
19 Keys to the Council: John Paul II	p. 253
20 Keys to the Council: Benedict XVI	p. 271
21 The Master Key	p. 284
22 Christ at the Center	p. 290
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Notes	p. 301
Index	p. 341

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