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Within Gaudium et spes are the themes of gift of self and the promotion of peace. [3] While initial reception of the document was focused on the shift in theological considerations, reception of Gaudium et spes today marks the document as a turning point in the Church's focus on the world. [3]
Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, concerned the promotion of peace, the gift of self, and the Church's mission to non-Catholics Dignitatis humanae, a declaration on religious freedom; Unitatis redintegratio, a decree on Christian ecumenism; Nostra aetate, a declaration about non-Christian religions
Apostolicam Actuositatem follows upon Lumen gentium, the "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church", of 21 November 1964, which in Chapter IV, discusses the laity, by which they mean all the faithful except those in Holy Orders or religious institutes. "They live in the ordinary circumstances of family and social life, from which the very web of ...
Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) Three Declarations: Gravissimum educationis (Declaration on Christian Education) Nostra aetate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions) Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom) Nine Decrees:
Gaudium, the Latin word for joy, may refer to: Gaudium, a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae; Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, from the Second Vatican Council; An internal sin, the dwelling with complacency on sins already committed; 8061 Gaudium, a minor planet
It was taken to mean that the church should listen to, and learn from, the world around it. In other words, it should learn to read the 'signs of the times'. This phrase comes from Matthew 16:3 , Luke 12:56 and was used by Pope John XXIII [Latin: "signa temporum"] when he convoked the council, in the statement Humanae Salutis (1961) [ 1 ] and ...
[177] Jesuit John Zupez writes, "In his programmatic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, after just three sentences of introduction, Francis launches into a call for a more expansive Christian spirit: 'The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the ...
German Stamp 1969. Pacem in terris was the first encyclical that a pope addressed to "all men of good will", rather than only to Catholics, quoting the praise to God as said by the heavenly army above the manger of Bethlehem (Latin Vulgate: in terra pax in hominibus bonae voluntatis, Luke 2:14; English translation: 2:13–14). [3]