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 PeaceÉdouard Le RoyFaithTeilhard de ChardinEncyclicalPapal Encyclicals’ drafting processFranceCensorshipBook CensorshipCatholic theologyNouvelle ThéologieSebastiaan TrompWorld council of churchesEvolutionismHoly OfficeInternational questionsPapal MagisteriumMagisteriumVatican Council IIFaith and orderSociety of JesusCatholic Bible Exegesis in the 1950sPope Pius XIIIndexingSacramental theologyModernismReform concernsEcumenismJust warPius XIIProfessionalisationDoctrineScientific progressJesuitsMoralsRoman CuriaHumani generisFranz HürthPontifical Biblical CommissionEthics of the SituationNational socialismPope’s ghost writersRoman MagisteriumRomanisationFranz Hürth SJMoral TheologyAnti-modernismCondemnation

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