Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of the Second Vatican Council
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Vatican Council II
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Publication Year
1979
Publisher
Harper & Row, United States
Pages
437
Description
Translated by PS Falla.
Sources of Renewal is regarded by many churchmen and theologians as the most significant work to date by Karol Wojtila (John Paul II). As bishop, he played an active and influential role in the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council and the writing of key documents. Now, as Pope John Paul II, he has announced that full implementation of Vatican II is the main goal of his pontificate. Sources of Renewal presents the groundwork for this implementation.
Initially written when Karol Wojtila was Cardinal, Sources of Renewal has been revised since his election as Pope. It presents his own interpretation of crucial passages of the Vatican II documents and seeks to incorporate them into the faith and life of the Church.
The first part of Sources of Renewal demonstrates that the Council was distinctive in its fundamentally affirmative and pastoral orientation and points the necessary course for the Church in the years ahead. This serves as the foundation of Parts II and III, which deal with the formation of Christian consciousness and the development of attitudes encouraged by the Council.
Sources of Renewal synthesizes the main elements of the teaching of Vatican II, seeking to relate perennial human concerns in their contemporary forms to the clarifying light of the Gospel. The work gives preeminence to the two major documents - the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World - while treating other documents in relation to the whole of the Council's teaching.
The message it conveys is that of the dignity and individuality of the person, whose religious faith is a free response to God's self-revelation. Stress is laid on the enrichment of mature faith by dialogue with people of good will, of all religions and none. Within the Church important themes are collegiality, the role of the laity, and the principle, enjoined by Christ on the Apostles, that authority and service are two sides of the same coin. Sources of Renewal is a book vital to anyone concerned with religion in our time.
His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtila, was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. After university, he entered the seminary of the diocese of Cracow, was ordained a priest in 1946, and then gained doctoral degrees in philosophy at the pontifical Athenaeum in Rome and in theology at the University of Cracow. He then taught ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin. He was consecrated a bishop in 1958, became Archbishop of Cracow in 1964, and Pope Paul VI appointed him Cardinal in 1967. He was elected Pope on October 16,1978.
Several of his works have been published in English, including Sign of Contradiction, The Acting Person, and Easter Vigil and Other Poems.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Sources of Renewal is regarded by many churchmen and theologians as the most significant work to date by Karol Wojtila (John Paul II). As bishop, he played an active and influential role in the deliberations of the Second Vatican Council and the writing of key documents. Now, as Pope John Paul II, he has announced that full implementation of Vatican II is the main goal of his pontificate. Sources of Renewal presents the groundwork for this implementation.
Initially written when Karol Wojtila was Cardinal, Sources of Renewal has been revised since his election as Pope. It presents his own interpretation of crucial passages of the Vatican II documents and seeks to incorporate them into the faith and life of the Church.
The first part of Sources of Renewal demonstrates that the Council was distinctive in its fundamentally affirmative and pastoral orientation and points the necessary course for the Church in the years ahead. This serves as the foundation of Parts II and III, which deal with the formation of Christian consciousness and the development of attitudes encouraged by the Council.
Sources of Renewal synthesizes the main elements of the teaching of Vatican II, seeking to relate perennial human concerns in their contemporary forms to the clarifying light of the Gospel. The work gives preeminence to the two major documents - the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World - while treating other documents in relation to the whole of the Council's teaching.
The message it conveys is that of the dignity and individuality of the person, whose religious faith is a free response to God's self-revelation. Stress is laid on the enrichment of mature faith by dialogue with people of good will, of all religions and none. Within the Church important themes are collegiality, the role of the laity, and the principle, enjoined by Christ on the Apostles, that authority and service are two sides of the same coin. Sources of Renewal is a book vital to anyone concerned with religion in our time.
His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtila, was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. After university, he entered the seminary of the diocese of Cracow, was ordained a priest in 1946, and then gained doctoral degrees in philosophy at the pontifical Athenaeum in Rome and in theology at the University of Cracow. He then taught ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin. He was consecrated a bishop in 1958, became Archbishop of Cracow in 1964, and Pope Paul VI appointed him Cardinal in 1967. He was elected Pope on October 16,1978.
Several of his works have been published in English, including Sign of Contradiction, The Acting Person, and Easter Vigil and Other Poems.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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