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TO SANCTIFY THE WORLD
The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
In this new book, Weigel explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future - and the world's.
The Second Vatican Council (19621965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled. Vatican II was initially summoned to address the crisis of world civilization that had led to two world wars and a Cold War that threatened the human future, but today it is remembered largely as a failure. While some Catholics proclaim a "spirit of Vatican II" that deconstructs Catholicism into a form of liberal Protestantism, others declare that the Council was the result of a vast conspiracy of worldly interests determined to bring Catholicism down.
In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel argues that both of these understandings are wrong. He brings more than thirty years of research on global Catholic affairs to bear on this compelling reassessment of the Council, explaining the necessity of Vatican II and exploring the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness. The Council's texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.
Written with insight and verve, To Sanctify the World recovers the true meaning of Vatican II as the template for a Catholicism that can propose a path toward genuine human dignity and social solidarity.
George Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center. The first volume of his biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, was a New York Times bestseller, and his writing appears in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. He lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.
In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel argues that both of these understandings are wrong. He brings more than thirty years of research on global Catholic affairs to bear on this compelling reassessment of the Council, explaining the necessity of Vatican II and exploring the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness. The Council's texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.
Written with insight and verve, To Sanctify the World recovers the true meaning of Vatican II as the template for a Catholicism that can propose a path toward genuine human dignity and social solidarity.
George Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center. The first volume of his biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, was a New York Times bestseller, and his writing appears in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. He lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.
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Published 2022-10-04 by Basic Books |
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Published 2022-10-04 by Basic Books |