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The Open Church (Paperback)
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Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session
of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry, politics, and
theology. An unusually well-informed lay intellectual, who had
earned a theological degree just before the Council, Novak
applauded the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul
VI-"to throw open the windows of the church." In this report, he
coined the classic description of the foes of the reforms at
Vatican II as the party of "nonhistorical orthodoxy," emphasizing
the eternal and unchanging, neglecting history and contingency.
The author recounts many moments of high drama-Pope Paul VI's
opening speech, the vote on the collegiality of bishops, the plea
of Cardinal Bea on behalf of the chapter on Jews, and Bishop De
Smedt's defense of religious freedom. His colorful chapter on the
American bishops in 1964 serves as a fascinating benchmark, as do
his many insights into the new role of the laity. His final chapter
is a moving tribute to the Open Church engaging the contemporary
world, and his new introduction brings this report up to date.
This work will be of compelling interest to those interested in
the post-conciliar fall of Communism, under the great John Paul
II-who took his name from his two predecessors at Vatican II.
The winner of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in
Religion (1994), Michael Novak is a theologian, author, and former
U.S. ambassador. He currently holds the George Frederick Jewett
Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington, D.C. where he is director of social and
political studies. His writings have appeared in every major
Western language, and in Chinese, Bengali, Korean, and Japanese.
Also available from Transaction are his "Catholic Social Thought
and Liberal Institutions, The Experience of Nothingness, The Guns
of Lattimer, Unmeltable Ethnics, Belief and Unbelief," and
"Choosing Presidents."
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