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Steps Toward Vatican III: Catholics Pathfinding a Global Spirituality with Islam and Buddhism

Steps Toward Vatican III: Catholics Pathfinding a Global Spirituality with Islam and Buddhism

Grudzen, Gerald
Raymaker, John

Paperback

Catholicism

ISBN10: 0761840516
ISBN13: 9780761840510
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Mar 20 2008
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Catholic Church has a tradition of bridge-building, one founded on Christ and that began with the Apostle St. John and the convert St. Paul. It helped bridge the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman worlds. Later, it helped civilize the tribes that overran Europe. Limits appeared in the Church's bridge-building ability when Europe was confronted with Islam, and later with the secular mentality that arose in Western Europe, as well as in its encounters with China, India, and Africa.

Steps Toward Vatican III examines the present dilemmas facing the Church and humanity in an age of globalization that daily brings people of various backgrounds into close proximity. It offers a middle-way to face such issues. It develops a global ethics and a global spirituality that can be incarnated within alert, loving, small Christian communities, as well as in the larger Church structures directed from the Vatican. It builds on Vatican II to find paths that may help bring peace and understanding in the world by a sympathetic evaluation of different world traditions. Such sympathy must be informed by the conversions that Jesus and the Church have demanded of their followers.

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