JoMaCC Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

Journal | JoMaCC
Journal issue | 3 | 1 | 2024

The Roman Magisterium in the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives from the Vatican Archives

open access | peer reviewed
Abstract

This issue of the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity documents a workshop held at Villa Vigoni, the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, in October 2023. The opening of the Vatican archives for the pontificate of Pius XII has also created new possibilities for research into the history of theology. The Franco-German-Italian workshop (which was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) examined ongoing projects in this context and related them to earlier research on the history of the Magisterium and Roman censorship. Theologically, the pontificate of Pius XII was characterised by an interesting mixture of cautious tendencies towards openness and renewed repression. Against this background, the workshop offered an impressive panorama of current research on the Roman Magisterium under Pius XII, which unfolds in the contributions to this issue. These offer many doctrinal, source-critical, institutional and prosopographical points of contact.

Keywords Humani generis Just war Morals Papal Encyclicals’ drafting process Vatican Council II Reform concerns Ethics of the Situation Encyclical Jesuits Pius XII Édouard Le Roy Ecumenism Romanisation Magisterium Doctrine Indexing Society of Jesus Moral Theology National socialism Professionalisation Faith and order World council of churches Modernism Roman Curia Faith Holy Office Papal Magisterium Pope’s ghost writers Franz Hürth SJ Anti-modernism Censorship Book Censorship Pope Pius XII Sacramental theology Condemnation International questions Catholic Bible Exegesis in the 1950s Nouvelle Théologie Sebastiaan Tromp Pontifical Biblical Commission Catholic theology France Teilhard de Chardin Evolutionism Roman Magisterium Scientific progress Franz Hürth Peace

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/JoMaCC/2785-6046/2024/01 | Published April 23, 2024 | Language it, fr, en

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