Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church: Aims and Obstacles, Lessons and Laments

ISBN-13: 9780826417213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 336 str.

Bradford E Hinze

Opis

One of the principal buzzwords of the Second Vatican Council (1963-65), along with collegiality, co-responsibility, full participation, and aggiornamento, was dialogue. This is a history of how the practices of dialogue have actually worked or failed to work at every level of the church over the past forty years. Beginning at the most basic level, that of the parish, the book moves up the ecclesiastical ladder from parish councils, to diocesan synods, to the (Roman) synod of bishops. The book moves laterally as well to include ecumenical and interreligious dialogues. A chapter is devoted to the fractious Call to Action Conference, initiated by the U.S. bishops in 1976; another to the new inclusive style of drafting pastoral letters by the U.S. bishops - The Challenge of Peace (1983), Economic Justice for All (1986), and the never approved pastoral on women (Partners in the Mystery of Redemption).