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Catholicism and Religious Freedom
Renewing the Church in the Second Vatican Council

German, English · Paperback / Softback

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Just about fifty years ago, in its declaration on religious freedom at the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church programmatically dispensed with political coercion as a means of enforcing its claim to truth. This act of self-imposed restriction with regard to religious claims to truth is exceptional in the history of religions. It is still extremely difficult to explain even today how such a traditional institution as the Catholic Church could have altered its position so fundamentally. In this volume the authors dispute how the Church came to its position, what the reasons and motives were for its repositioning, what shape this process of change took, and the steps involved in the change: What were the characteristics, circumstances and dynamics of the path of Catholicism to recognizing religious freedom?

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Karl Gabriel is Senior Professor at the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics at the University of Münster. Christian Spieß is Professor of Christian Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Linz. Katja Winkler is a research associate at the Chair of Theological Ethics/Social Ethics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.


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Authors Christian Spiess, Katja Winkler, Karl Gabriel, Kar Gabriel, Christia Spiess
Publisher Brill Schöningh
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 06.12.2018
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology
 
EAN 9783506789006
ISBN 978-3-506-78900-6
Pages 293
Dimensions (packing) 15.5 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm
Weight (packing) 525 g
 

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