By Gerd-Rainer Horn
Western ecu Liberation Theology is the 1st accomplished survey of the advance of a different, revolutionary version of Catholicism in twentieth-century Western Europe. This Left Catholicism served to put the foundation for the following occasions and evolutions linked to Vatican II. at first rising in the barriers of Catholic motion, fuelled by way of the becoming strength and self-confidence of the Catholic laity, a sequence of demanding situations to bought knowledge and an array of novel experiments have been introduced in numerous corners of Western Europe. the instant of liberation from Nazi career and global conflict in 1944/45 became out to be the highpoint of those confident paradigm shifts. focusing on interrelated advancements in theology, Catholic politics and apostolic social motion, Gerd-Rainer Horn integrates facts from Italian, French and Belgian nationwide contexts. Drawing on his examine in over twenty files among Leuven and Rome, he highlights the function of organizations, social hobbies, and highbrow tendencies. The pivotal contributions of key people are assessed, from theologians equivalent to Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier, to the millenarian activist monks, Don Zeno Saltini and Don Primo Mazzolari. In end Horn means that first-wave Western eu Left Catholicism served as an idea - and constituted a prototype - for next 3rd international Liberation Theology.
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Let it suffice to highlight the fact that Rerum Novarum approved and promoted the idea, if not the necessity, for workers’ organizations to see the light of day, workers’ organizations, to be sure, that would concern themselves with the defence of workers’ economic interest, but that would simultaneously devote even more attention to the positive solution of related moral and religious questions. Rerum Novarum was indeed quite eclectic with regard to the kinds of organizations it aimed to promote.
63 The story was roughly similar in other regions of the Western world but, given the centrality of Italy for the Catholic Church, the ensuing description of the development of Catholic apostolic movements, focused on the reconquest of the European lost world of Catholicism, will pay closest attention to Italian developments. For, as we will see, even and especially in the inter-war period of the first half of the twentieth century, Italian debates and Italian reality crucially determined the contours of Catholic organizations 63 Liliana Ferrari, L’Azione Cattolica in Italia dalle origine al pontificato di Paolo VI (Brescia: Queriana, 1982), 9.
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