The Church in the Modern World: Gaudium et Spes Then and Now

by Michael G. Lawler, Todd A Salzman, Eileen Burke-Sullivan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814682951
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	09/25/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Todd A. Salzman, PhD, is professor of theology at Creighton University. His areas of interest include Christian ethical theory, sexual ethics, biomedical ethics, and ethics and international humanitarian law. In addition to the co-authored books with Dr. Lawler, he has published over sixty scholarly articles in journals such as Theological Studies, Studia Moralia, Heythrop Journal, and Louvain Studies. Todd is married to Katy Salzman and they have three children: Ian, Aaron, and Emily.

Eileen Burke-Sullivan, STD, holds the Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Pastoral Liturgical Theology and associate professor of theology at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. She also directs the MA programs in ministry and Christian spirituality at Creighton. Eileen co-authored The Ignatian Tradition, published by Liturgical Press, and has lectured and published widely on liturgical, spiritual, and ecclesial topics. Eileen and her husband, Michael Sullivan, live in Omaha.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 Gaudium et Spes: The History 13

Chapter 2 The Ecclesiological Focus of Gaudium et Spes 41

Chapter 3 Gaudium et Spes: Perspectivism, Conscience, and Ethical Method 71

Chapter 4 Gaudium et Spes: Marriage 112

Chapter 5 Being Christ-ian and the Service of Love and Justice 138

Chapter 6 The Political Community and Peacebuilding 164

Index 199

Editorial Reviews

"A key strength of this volume is the unity of voice afforded by the collaboration of these three Creighton University colleagues, who quite evidently coauthored all parts of this book as a single unit. In consistently admirable ways, this volume rises to the fierce challenge of covering much ground with great dispatch."
Thomas Massaro, SJ, Worship

EBOOK COMMENTARY

"A key strength of this volume is the unity of voice afforded by the collaboration of these three Creighton University colleagues, who quite evidently coauthored all parts of this book as a single unit. In consistently admirable ways, this volume rises to the fierce challenge of covering much ground with great dispatch."
Thomas Massaro, SJ, Worship

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