Papers presented at the 10th Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, held October 26-29, 2015, at the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.

"The Letter and the Spirit: On the Forgotten Documents of Vatican II focuses on the present day reception of the Second Vatican Council. At the time the expectations related to the Council were rather high. At its convocation Pope John XXIII expressed clearly that he expected nothing less than a new Pentecost from it. In the very last speech of the first session of the Council, Christopher Butler OSB stated: 'the theology of the Church is in some way being reborn' and he reminded the council fathers to see: 'we have the opportunity to show to the eyes of the whole world that are turned upon us a new vision of the unchanging Christ'. What has become of this vision, what has become of the spirit and the letter of the Council more than fifty years after its closure? In this volume we have identified several areas where the question of the interpretation of the Council seems by no means settled. They regard divine revelation and human freedom, mission and dialogue, education and vocation, lay and ordained ministry in the Church. In light of the developments since the Council which rise new questions, the interpretation of both, the forgotten and unforgotten documents of Vatican II continues in critical reflection and fruitful discussion of still unresolved but all the more pressing issues."-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The letter and the spirit: on the forgotten documents of Vatican II : mapping the landscape of contributions / Annemarie C. Mayer -- Intertextual reception: rethinking revelation in the light of divine immanence and the dignity of the person and cosmos / Thomas Hughson -- Vatican II on the inculturation of reason and faith: "That the philosophical and theological disciplines be more suitably aligned ..." / Philip J. Rossi -- Dialogue and the proclamation of truth / Richard K. Baawobr -- The forgotten legacy of Nostra Aetate: Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel at Vatican II / Joshua Furnal -- School of dialogue in love: interweaving Gravissimum educationis with Perfectae caritatis anno 2015 / Lieven Boeve -- Irradiation of divine splendor: an aesthetic approach to the reading of Gravissimum educationis and Perfectae caritatis / Ha-Fong Maria Ko -- The dialogue of salvation in changing contexts: the challenges of Gravissimum educationis -- Sharing in the threefold office of Christ, a different matter for laity and priests? : the Tria munera in Lumen gentium, Presbyterorum ordinis, Apostolicam actuositatem and Ad gentes / Peter De Mey -- The doctrine of the Tria munera within the Propositio Chilensis: ecclesiological impulses on the structural relation of lay and ordained ministries in the Church / Simone Horstmann -- The doctrine of the threefold office serving as the basis for a new order of the ministries in the Church / Thomas Ruster -- The decree on the apostolate of lay people Apostolicam actuositatem and "co-workers in the vineyard of the Lord" in dialogue with the communio theology of Walter Kasper -- "The Holy Spirit leads the Church through charismas" (LG 12): the conciliar doctrine on charisma and its significance for the laity's active involvement in the Church / Jos Moons -- Kenosis, unity, and kingdom: christology and ecclesial renewal at Vatican II / Christiane Alpers, Stephan van Erp -- Processwork and the rebuilding of communion: recovering forgotten community aspects of Sacrosanctum Concilium / James G. Leachman.

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