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The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II - Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform (Hardcover)
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The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II - Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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In this book, Shaun Blanchard argues that the roots of the Vatican
II reforms must be pushed back beyond the widely acknowledged
twentieth-century forerunners of the Council, beyond Newman and the
Tubingen School in the nineteenth century, to the eighteenth
century, when a variety of reform movements attempted ressourcement
and aggiornamento. This close study of the Synod of Pistoia (1786)
sheds surprising new light on the nature of church reform and the
roots of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The high-water mark
of the late Jansenist reform movement, this Tuscan diocesan synod
was harshly condemned by Pope Pius VI in the Bull Auctorem fidei
(1794), and in the increasingly ultramontane nineteenth-century
Church the late Jansenist movement was totally discredited.
Nevertheless, much of the Pistoian agenda-an exaltation of the role
of the local bishop, an emphasis on infallibility as a gift to the
entire believing community, religious liberty, a more
comprehensible liturgy that incorporates the vernacular, and the
encouragement of lay Bible reading and Christocentric
devotions-would be officially promulgated at Vatican II.
Investigating the theological and historical context and nature of
the reforms enacted by the Synod of Pistoia, he notes their
parallels with the reforms of Vatican II, and argues that these
connections are deeper than mere affinity. The tumultuous events
surrounding the reception of the Synod explain why these reforms
failed at the time. This book also offers a measured theological
judgment on whether the Synod of Pistoia was "true or false
reform." Although the Pistoians were completely rejected in their
own day, the Second Vatican Council struggled with, and ultimately
enacted, remarkably similar ideas.
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