TRS 728K Vatican II: History and Theology
This course examines the Second Vatican Council against the background of the history and tradition of the Church, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We particularly consider the four movements for renewal, patristic, biblical, liturgical and ecumenical, that strongly influenced the council, some of the leading pioneers in those movements, and seven of the major texts promulgated by the council, namely the constitutions on the liturgy, revelation, the Church and the Church in the modern world, together with the documents on ecumenism, religious freedom and relations with non-christian religions. The course finally reflects on the impact and reception of the council both within the Catholic Church and beyond.