This book is the first comprehensive and transnational survey of the radical dynamic unleashed by the innovations emerging from Vatican II. It highlights the intellectual and activist contribution by Catholic thinkers, priests, and laypersons in shaping the turbulent decade of the Sixties in Western Europe. This study will be of interest to social movement activists as much as to students of theology. The specific contributions by radical Catholic students, workers, base communities, radical priest associations, and eminent theologians are covered in equal depth. It aims to highlight a moment in the recent history of European society when Catholic communities were acting as indispensable motor forces of radical political and societal change. The story told casts light on a very recent moment in European history when utopian longings were commonplace, leading to a great variety of radical experiments which fundamentally changed society.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199593255
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214400373
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Author
Gerd-Rainer Horn
Publication Name
The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive Catholicism in the Long Sixties