Contemporaneous to the announcement of the Second Vatican Council (1959) occurred cataclysmic changes in politics, society, technology and social behaviour. During the decade 1959 to 1968 the Popes John XXIII and Paul VI tried to give adequate answers to these changes. One may think of Fidel Castro’s Cuba or the military regimes in Latin America, of the independence wars in Africa or Asia, of the Cold War between the political systems and countries, of the technological efforts to conquer the space or of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. Contributions confront these “revolutions” to the mostly defensive reactions of the Church and elaborate the connection with the conciliar event.
Chair:
- Joachim Schmiedl (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar)
Panelists:
- Márcia Dias Sousa (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) - Global revolutions in the words expressed by Paul VI to the UN General Assembly
- Margit Eckholt (Universität Osnabrück) - Paul VI., die Konferenz der lateinamerikanischen Bischöfe in Medellin und der Konflikt um die Theologie der Befreiung
- Gianmaria Zamagni (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar / Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) - Between Franco and John. The Spanish Episcopate in Front of the Council and Revolutions of the Sixties
Language: English / German
