The Roman Magisterium in the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives from the Vatican Archives
a cura di
Lingua: en, fr, it
Pubblicato: 23 Aprile 2024
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.
Faith and order • Romanisation • National socialism • Franz Hürth • Catholic theology • Morals • Professionalisation • Teilhard de Chardin • Catholic Bible Exegesis in the 1950s • Censorship • Society of Jesus • Sebastiaan Tromp • Pope’s ghost writers • Moral Theology • Jesuits • Modernism • Pope Pius XII • Humani generis • Nouvelle Théologie • Sacramental theology • Papal Encyclicals’ drafting process • Reform concerns • Roman Curia • Encyclical • World council of churches • Roman Magisterium • Papal Magisterium • Vatican Council II • Condemnation • Ecumenism • Magisterium • Doctrine • Édouard Le Roy • International questions • Book Censorship • Anti-modernism • France • Just war • Pontifical Biblical Commission • Scientific progress • Ethics of the Situation • Faith • Holy Office • Franz Hürth SJ • Indexing • Evolutionism • Peace • Pius XII