The church in the modern world
Subtitle: Gaudium et spes then and now
By: Michael G. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman, and Eileen Burke-Sullivan
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780814682708; 9780814682951
Subjects: Church and the world; Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis
Description: Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world. On the document's fiftieth anniversary, this book explores the historical origins of Gaudium et Spes, its impact on the Church's ecclesial self-understanding, and its implications for doing Catholic theological ethics for the specific ethical issues of marriage, social justice, politics, and peacebuilding. The book engages in the ongoing communal discernment of the aggiornamento sought by the council's convener, Pope John XXIII, seeking to bring the Church up to date in the twenty-first century. (Publisher).
Notes: "A Michael Glazier book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Gaudium et spes: the history; title: The ecclesiological focus of Gaudium et spes; title: Gaudium et spes: perspectivism, conscience, and ethical method; title: Gaudium et spes: marriage; title: Being Christ-ian and the service of love and justice; title: The political community and peacebuilding.