scholarly journals Transformational Ethics: The Concept of Obedience in Post-Conciliar Jesuit Thinking

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Antje Schnoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of

The paper sheds light on the change in the concept of obedience within the Society of Jesus since the 1960s. In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, a so-called crisis of authority and obedience took place in the Catholic Church and the religious orders. As a consequence, the notions of responsibility and conscience came to the fore in the Jesuit definition of obedience. The religious concept of obedience, that is the obedience towards God, was reassessed as a service to humanity. The paper analyzes how the change in the concept of obedience gave rise to the promotion of social justice, which the Society of Jesus proclaimed at General Congregation 32 in 1974/75. By including the promotion of social justice into their central mission, Jesuits not only fundamentally transformed their self-conception, but also their ethical values. The paper argues that the pursuit of social justice became a form of religious obedience.

A Jesuit Way of Being Global?

2018 ◽  
pp. 1035-1053
Author(s):  
Frédéric Gugelot
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Two Sides

The Jesuits were important actors in the Catholic Church in the 1960s when changes in Catholicism occurred before and after the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). The members of the Society of Jesus were active participants in movements calling for the “inculturation” of Christianity and the “liberation theology” coming from the Third World, two sides of the same process of globalization of Catholicism. It is from this time onward that the center of gravity moved away from Rome to South America, Asia, and Africa. The Jesuits also participated in the transition from a triumphant church to a church based on service to the poor. This is the social, cultural, and theological background in which the future pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, spent the early years of his ecclesiastical career.

Catholic Feminist Theology

2016 ◽  
pp. 832-849
Author(s):  
Danielle Nussberger
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter charts the history of Catholicism’s feminist theology. It begins with an overview of contexts that contributed to the development of Catholic feminist theology, with particular emphasis on the role of the Second Vatican Council (1963–1965) in the surge of feminist theological dialogue that began in the Catholic Church in the 1960s and 1970s. It then considers various feminist theories that differed in their strategies for overcoming injustice against women, especially the first-, second-, and third-wave feminisms. It also examines Catholic feminist theology’s viewpoints on the methodological concerns of hermeneutics, language, and praxis, along with its interpretation of Scripture and Christian history, what language we should be using to name and call upon the God in whom we believe, Jesus’ redemption of humanity from sin; Mary and the saints; Trinity; and creation.

Phantomatic Presences and Bioreligiosity

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-316
Author(s):  
Valentina Napolitano
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Shed Light

This article explores the mimetic analogies between the twentieth-century Mexican order of the Legionaries of Christ and the Jesuits in their historic and current Atlantic reproduction. It argues for a line of study of the translocality of the Roman Catholic Church that pays attention to phantomatic presences, changing bioreligiosity and affective histories. Moreover it shows as a close focus on the “psychic glue” between different religious orders can shed light on the affective power of eroticism and mysticism within the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council.

Americanism Revived

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-183
Author(s):  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Personal Liberty ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Moral Indifference ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter cites conservatives that regard Watergate and Richard Nixon's subsequent resignation as catastrophic. It discusses how the hopes for fusing American ideas of small government and personal liberty with traditional Christianity looked less than promising by 1975. It also refers to the mainline Protestant churches that, in the 1960s, came to terms with the mix of political reform and moral indifference in ways that were more radical than traditional. The chapter emphasizes how Protestants had yet to emerge as an identifiable political constituency as their concerns were generally too pious and moral for the urbane and worldly ethos of movement conservatives. It describes how the Roman Catholic Church was in the midst of sorting out the reforms of the Second Vatican Council while defending the papal teaching on sex and contraception.

scholarly journals CHURCH, Category, and Speciation

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Natural Categories ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract The Roman Catholic definition of “church”, especially as applied to groups of Protestant Christians, creates a number of well-known difficulties. The similarly complex category, “species,” provides a model for applying this term so as to neither lose the centrality of certain examples nor draw a hard boundary to rule out border cases. In this way, it can help us to more adequately apply the complex ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council. This article draws parallels between the understanding of speciation and categorization and the definition of Church since the council. In doing so, it applies the work of cognitive linguists, including George Lakoff, Zoltan Kovecses, Giles Fauconnier and Mark Turner on categorization. We tend to think of categories as containers into which we sort objects according to essential criteria. However, categories are actually built inductively by making associations between objects. This means that natural categories, including species, are more porous than we assume, but nevertheless bear real meaning about the natural world. Taxonomists dispute the border between “zebras” and “wild asses,” but this distinction arises out of genetic and evolutionary reality; it is not merely arbitrary. Genetic descriptions of species has also led recently to the conviction that there are four species of giraffe, not one. This engagement will ground a vantage point from which the Council‘s complex ecclesiology can be more easily described so as to authentically integrate its noncompetitive vision vis-a-vis other Christians with its sense of the unique place held by Catholic Church.

Dominican Friar, Lay Saint: The Case of Marcolino of Forlì

1997 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The years surrounding the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) witnessed a historiographical revolution that transformed the study of medieval Christianity. One might say that both a new Vatican ecclesiology and the new religious history sprang from the same conceptual root. Even as the Council articulated a definition of the Catholic Church as the people of God rather than simply a hierarchical institution, a number of important scholars were rediscovering the religious history of the Christian people. Shifting their focus away from the traditional monastic treatises on the contemplative life, scholars argued that all believers, and not just clerical specialists in the sacred, had a spiritual life that constituted a proper object for historical study. This new understanding of the history of Christian spirituality rapidly proved enormously fecund, opening as it did novel and exciting prospects for the study of popular religion.

Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church By Carol Ann Drogus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 226p. $26.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-237
Author(s):  
Mala Htun
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church

Historically, the Roman Catholic Church is seen as an obstacle to progressive social and political change in Latin America. Beginning in the 1960s, however, the Second Vatican Council and the growth of liberation theology prompted doctrinal and institutional changes in the church in Brazil and several other countries. From an ally of the conservative oligarchy and establishment, the church turned into an engine of mobilization for grassroots movements and a focal point for popular opposition to authoritarian governments. One of the more significant and widely researched changes in the “popular church” was the establishment of thousands of ecclesiastical base communities (CEBs) among the poor. The fact that the majority of CEB participants are women has received far less attention.

The Aggiornamento Phenomenon and the Second Vatican Council

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Hiermonk Ioann ( Bulyko) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Xxiii ◽  
The Church

The Second Vatican Council was a unique event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Initiated by Pope John XXIII, it was intended to make the Roman Catholic Church more open to the contemporary society and bring it closer to the people. The principal aim of the council was the so called aggiornamento (updating). The phenomenon of updating the ecclesiastical life consisted in the following: on the one hand, modernization of the life of the Church and closer relations with the secular world; on the other hand, preserving all the traditions upon which the ecclesiastical life was founded. Hence in the Council’s documents we find another, French word ressourcement meaning ‘return to the origins’ based on the Holy Scripture and the works of the Church Fathers. The aggiornamento phenomenon emerged during the Second Vatican Council due to the movement within the Catholic Church called nouvelle theologie (French for “new theology”). Its representatives advanced the ideas that became fundamental in the Council’s decisions. The nouvelle theologie was often associated with modernism as some of the ideas of its representatives seemed to be very similar to those of modernism. However, what made the greatest difference between the two movements was their attitude towards the tradition. For the nouvelle theologie it was very important to revive Christianity in its initial version, hence their striving for returning to the sources, for the oecumenical movement, for better relations with non-Catholics and for liturgical renewal. All these ideas can be traced in the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and all this is characterized by the word aggiornamento.

Exploring the Possible Contributions of the African Palaver towards a Participatory Synodal Church

Exchange ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 209-237
Author(s):  
Stan Chu Ilo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

Abstract This essay argues for a participatory synodal Church and the possible contributions of the African palaver as a model for participatory dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church. The African palaver is the art of conversation, dialogue, and consensus-building in traditional society that can be appropriated in the current search for a more inclusive and expansive participatory dialogue at all levels of the life of the Church. I will develop this essay first by briefly exploring some theological developments on synodality between the Second Vatican Council and Pope Francis and some of the contributions of the reforms of Pope Francis to synodality in the Church. Secondly, I will identify how the African palaver functions through examples taken from two African ethnic groups. I will proceed to show how the African palaver could enter into dialogue with other new approaches to participatory dialogue for a synodal Church.

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