Essays Tagged: "vatican ii"
Why is Vatican II so significant in the modern church?
Why is Vatican II so significant in the modern church?INTRODUCTION: VATICAN IIVatican II was the 21st ecume ... presented, the result of government pressures. The average attendance at the meetings was 2200.ESSAYVatican II, as we can clearly see from the above information, was a very large and important meeting ... ee from the above information, was a very large and important meeting in the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican II has altered the Roman Catholic Church more that any other council that took place. It has ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.
, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven. (James 5:13-15)Vatican II states: "'Extreme Unction,' also called 'anointing of the sick,' is not a sacrament for t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Faith/Religion vatican councils
olic Church. However the Council of Trent had many positive outcomes: it guided the church into the Vatican II in the 1960's, and new orders were founded to undertake the reforms. The third council is ... n the 1960's, and new orders were founded to undertake the reforms. The third council is called the Vatican II council. The church was in need of for renewal and one person, Pope John XXIII brought ne ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Buddhism and Christianity Similarities.
The most revolutionary document of Vatican II, the Nostra Aetate, proclaims for the first time that Catholics need to acknowledge other ... as well as the social-cultural values found among these men (Nostra Aetate 1965).Specifically, Vatican II discusses the similarities and commonalities between Catholicism and other world religion ... all of these "cravings" in one word: sin.The Nostra Aetate demonstrates the effort by members of Vatican II to encourage Catholics to acknowledge, as well as take interest in, the other religions o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism
Natural Law in "Veritatis Splendor"
those who have been faithful to Church teaching have thought that with the Christocentric focus of Vatican II, Pope John Paul II's personalism, and the proliferation of "rights" language in papal doc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Christianity and World Religions
importance of Christian teachings while Evangelicals carry a more exclusivist or doubtful view.The Vatican II series of Catholic bishop meetings in the 1960s established what would be the obtaining p ... part of God's activity and that the good and holy in these religions are fulfilled in Christianity. Vatican II's "Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions" suggests tha ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity