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Newman on Vatican II (Hardcover)
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Newman on Vatican II (Hardcover)
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John Henry Newman is often described as 'the Father of the Second
Vatican Council'. He anticipated most of the Council's major
documents, as well as being an inspiration to the theologians who
were behind them. His writings offer an illuminating commentary
both on the teachings of the Council and the way these have been
implemented and interpreted in the post-conciliar period. This book
is the first sustained attempt to consider what Newman's reaction
to Vatican II would have been. As a theologian who on his own
admission fought throughout his life against theological
liberalism, yet who pioneered many of the themes of the Council in
his own day, Newman is best described as a conservative radical who
cannot be classed simply as either a conservative or liberal
Catholic. At the time of the First Vatican Council, Newman
adumbrated in his private letters a mini-theology of Councils,
which casts much light on Vatican II and its aftermath. Noted
Newman scholar, Ian Ker, argues that Newman would have greatly
welcomed the reforms of the Council, but would have seen them in
the light of his theory of doctrinal development, insisting that
they must certainly be understood as changes but changes in
continuity rather than discontinuity with the Church's tradition
and past teachings. He would therefore have endorsed the so-called
'hermeneutic of reform in continuity' in regard to Vatican II, a
hermeneutic first formulated by Pope Benedict XVI and subsequently
confirmed by his successor, Pope Francis, and rejected both
'progressive' and ultra-conservative interpretations of the Council
as a revolutionary event. Newman believed that what Councils fail
to speak of is of great importance, and so a final chapter
considers the kind of evangelization - a topic notably absent from
the documents of Vatican II - Newman thought appropriate in the
face of secularization.
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