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Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (2015), sculpture by Joshua Koffman at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, commemorating Nostra aetate.. Nostra aetate (from Latin: "In our time"), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Vatican II, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
Unitatis redintegratio (Restoration of unity) is the Second Vatican Council's decree on ecumenism. It was passed by a vote of 2,137 to 11 of the bishops assembled at the Council, and was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1964. The title of the document is taken from the opening words of the Latin text.
The hermeneutics of rupture, also known as the hermeneutics of discontinuity, tends to give value to the Council as an event, also in consideration of some particular characteristics of Vatican II: the absence of a specific historical purpose, the rejection of the originally Roman Curia-backed preparatory schemes, the assembly elaboration of ...
Some elements of the Roman Catholic perspective on ecumenism are illustrated in the following quotations from the Second Vatican Council's 1964 decree on ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio (UR) and John Paul II's 1995 encyclical, Ut unum sint (UUS). Every renewal of the Church is essentially grounded in an increase of fidelity to her own calling.
Close to 10% of the Council Fathers voted against it, to show their displeasure with its lack of aggiornamento. It is one of the two Vatican II documents considered something of a failure (along with the decree on the Modern Means of Communication). "Even at the last minute, dissatisfaction with the text was widespread and wide-ranging". [173]
Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council.This dogmatic constitution was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1964, following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,151 to 5. [1]
The document said that AI should help promote critical thinking, and not just train “young people how to amass information and generate quick responses.” Education is not about “filling one’s head with ideas,” but “is about taking a risk in the tensions between the mind, the heart and the hands,” it said.
It was the last document promulgated during the Second Vatican Council and the first church document to place the church within the significance of the world. [1] Gaudium et spes illustrated the church is aware of problems within the world and its responsibilities toward them. [ 1 ]