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

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

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

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