JoMaCC Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

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Fascicolo | 3 | 1 | 2024

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

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/JoMaCC/2785-6046/2024/01 | Pubblicato 23 Aprile 2024 | Lingua fr, it, en

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