A Privileged Moment: 'Dialogue' in the Language of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965
Ann Michele Nolan
Broschiertes Buch

A Privileged Moment: 'Dialogue' in the Language of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965

Dialogue in the Language of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965

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This book is the first major study to analyse the word 'dialogue' in the documents of the Second Vatican Council. 'Dialogue' actually translates two different Latin words, colloquium and dialogus, which do not mean the same thing. After a clear explanation of the important distinction between the dialectic of Thomism, where dialogue leads to an end-point, and the modern meaning of dialogue as an open-ended process between equal partners, the book argues that these dissimilar concepts became blurred in the documents of the Council. A careful analysis of the interpretation of this word in a comp...