The Anthropological Turn, Christian Humanism, and Vatican II : Louvain Theologians Preparing the Path for 'Gaudium et spes' (1942-1965) (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium)

Bosschaert, D.

Peeters Publishers（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 500 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789042940277
• DDC分類 301

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Quid est autem homo? What is the human person? This question,
raised in paragraph twelve of Gaudium et spes, was addressed by
both bishops and theologians throughout the redaction process of the
Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution. This had been an open
and contested question for many years before Vatican II was convened,
and no definitive answer had been found by the time the council closed.
This volume investigates how this question haunted theologians in the
mid-twentieth century, and it focuses especially on Louvain theology.
More particularly, its first chapter discusses the anthropological turn
that occurred in twentieth-century theology and which was shaped by
aspects of Christian humanism, the theology of history, theology of
earthly realities, theology of society, and theology of the laity. The
following four chapters sketch the intellectual itineraries of Albert
Dondeyne, Gerard Philips, Gustave Thils, and Charles Moeller. These four
Louvain theologians respectively developed a universal Christian
humanism, an ecclesiology ad extra, an integrated Christian
anthropology, and a humanism of the Beatitudes. The last three chapters
analyze the reception of their thinking at the Second Vatican Council,
focusing especially on the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes.
The text of Malines, a draft text written in 1963, is presented as a
cornerstone of Louvain's contribution to this anthropological turn.