The crisis of authority in Catholic modernity [electronic resource] / edited by Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 381 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History and the return of the repressed in Catholic modernity: the dilemma posed by Constance / Francis Oakley -- Leo's church and our own / Michael J. Lacey -- Benedict XVI and the interpretation of Vatican II / Joseph A. Komonchak -- Catholic tradition and traditions / Francis A. Sullivan -- Something there is that doesn't love a law: canon law and its discontents / John P. Beal -- A teaching church that learns?: Discerning "authentic" teaching in our times / Gerard Mannion -- Moral theology after Vatican II / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Retrieving and reframing Catholic casuistry / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- Magisterial authority / Charles Taylor -- American Catholics and church authority / William V. D'Antonio ... [et al.] -- Souls and bodies: the birth control controversy and the collapse of confession / Leslie Woodcock Tentler -- Assessing the education of priests and lay ministers: content and consequences / Katarina Schuth -- Epilogue: The matter of unity / Francis Oakley -- Appendix: Remarks on interpreting the Second Vatican Council / Pope Benedict XVI.

9780199857562 (electronic bk.) 0199857563 (electronic bk.)


Catholic Church--Doctrines.


Church--Authority.
Authority--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology


Electronic books.

BX1746 / .C68 2011eb

262/.8088282