Vatican II: did anything happen?

From: Theological Studies | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Recent emphasis on the continuity of Vatican II with the Catholic tradition runs the danger of slighting the aspects of the council that were discontinuous. Among those aspects are the literary genre the council adopted and the vocabulary inherent in the genre, different from that of all previous councils. Examination of these aspects yields tools for constructing a hermeneutic appropriate to this council, and not only shows how distinctive Vatican II was but also allows us to get at that elusive "spirit of the council." The substance of this article was delivered as the Roland Bainton ...

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