So, how it going with the Dei Verbum Reading Challenge? By way of encouragement, here’s a summary of Bishop Rober Barron’s introduction to the challenge, below;
Also the reading material is available here;
https://wordonfire.institute/dvrc-week-1-intro
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Much debate, over 60 years on the meaining and nature of Vatican II
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There are three widely accepted interpretation groupings of Vatican II
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Vatican II is an INVALID BREAK with Church teaching
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Vatican II is valid CONTINUATION of Catholic Church teaching
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The core mission and the teachings of the Church remain
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Vatican II serves as an encouragement and clarifier of the core mission
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Vatican II was the start of a COMPLETELY NEW Church
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This group refers to the SPIRIT of Vatican II
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A SPIRIT to change doctrines, practices and institutions
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The Pope who established Vatican II saw its fundamental purpose as a MISSIONARY purpose
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The commonly held view at the time of Vatican II was that the Church’s “neo-scholastic” theologial approach was INSUFFICIENT for the Church’s missionary role
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The approach of Vatican II was to use the more POETICAL language of the early Church & Scriptures
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Vatican II is a set of meditative, theological essays design to PERSUADE rather than CONDEMN
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Not many people have read the Vatican II texts, this is part of the problem of its continued, diverging interpretation groupings
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