Still Interpreting Vatican II: Some Hermeneutical Principles

by Ormond Rush

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 2004

Overview

Still Interpreting Vatican II proposes three phases of investigation. First, a hermeneutical inquiry must determine the meanings intended by the authors of Vatican II’s documents by reconstructing the “spirit” of the documents in the context of their conciliar debates and committee work. Second, a hermeneutic of the texts must look at issues of genre, structure, rhetoric, intratexuality, and intertextuality—all of which are significant in reconstructing the “letter” of the Council. Third, the effort to reconstruct both “spirit” and “letter” must be supplemented by attention to the post-conciliar reception of the Council and its texts. Still Interpreting Vatican II concludes with a proposal that believers see the Holy Spirit at work not only in the Council’s letter and spirit, but in the continuing act and challenge of receiving the Council at the dawn of the third millennium. By pursuing these three hermeneutics and recognizing that the Spirit is still at work, the current impasse over interpreting Vatican II may yet be broken.

Product Details

• Title: Still Interpreting Vatican II: Some Hermeneutical Principles
• Author: Ormond Rush
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Vatican Council (2nd: 1962-1965)
• ISBNs: 0809142856, 9780809142859
• Resource ID: LLS:STLLNTRPRTNVTCN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:57:58Z

About Ormond Rush

Ormond Rush, STD, is president of St. Paul’s Theological College in Banyo, Australia, where he lectures in foundational theology, theological hermeneutics, Christology, and the theology of creation.