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Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times in the Light of the Gospel: Proceedings of the Expert Seminar Leuven-Louvain-La-Neuve, 9-11september 2004

Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times in the Light of the Gospel: Proceedings of the Expert Seminar Leuven-Louvain-La-Neuve, 9-11september 2004

Verstraeten, J.

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Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, Book 208

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ISBN10: 9042919787
ISBN13: 9789042919785
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Nov 8 2007
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.53 Depth: 9.59
Language: English
Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Churchin the Modern World) was promulgated on December 7, 1965. It mirrors anew spirit of openness of the Catholic Church to the world, as well as a newhistorical consciousness, based on a self-understanding of the Catholic Chuch aslinked with mankind and its history by the deepest bonds(GS, 1). This historical consciousness resulted in a methodof social discernment which, inspired by John XXIII, was articulated byGaudium et spes in terms of 'scrutinizing the signs ofthe times' and of 'interpreting them in the light of the gospel'(GS, 4).Conscious of the need to revisit the pastoral constitution of Vatican II, theCentre for Catholic Social Thought at the Catholic University of Leuven, hasorganised two international expert seminars.The first expert seminar (6-7 September 2003) was rather explorative and focusedon the relevance of catholic social thought in its actual context with specialattention paid to the signs of the times in an era of globalisation. Thediscussion on the contemporary signs of the times revealed the necessity toclarify the theoretical and practical implications of the methodology of socialdiscernment and particularly of a social hermeneutic in the light ofthe gospel.This became the theme of a second expert seminar (Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, 9-11September 2004), the discussions of which are the background to this book.

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