JoMaCC Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

Rivista | JoMaCC
Fascicolo | 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 National socialismBook CensorshipFranz HürthEncyclicalAnti-modernismEthics of the SituationFrancePontifical Biblical CommissionFaithInternational questionsMagisteriumSociety of JesusJust warReform concernsHumani generisPapal MagisteriumFaith and orderMoral TheologyRomanisationModernismPapal Encyclicals’ drafting processÉdouard Le RoyJesuitsTeilhard de ChardinSacramental theologyEvolutionismNouvelle ThéologiePius XIIIndexingRoman CuriaDoctrineScientific progressCensorshipRoman MagisteriumWorld council of churchesPope’s ghost writersPope Pius XIIPeaceProfessionalisationCatholic Bible Exegesis in the 1950sFranz Hürth SJCondemnationVatican Council IISebastiaan TrompHoly OfficeCatholic theologyEcumenismMorals

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