Storia della Chiesa 4 RA0806

This course is designed to assist Students, through the studies of several themes, to acquire a worthy knowledge of the evolution of the past two hundred years of Church History.

Course Outline: Birth of a New Age. Church and State Relationships. Political evolution and its effects: 1789-1914. Age of revolutions (1789-1801), the divorce; Napoleonic Empire (1801-1815), enforced marriage; Restoration (1815-1848) Is good-old-time marriage still possible? Pius IX and the European States (1848-1878), the Church forced into freedom; Struggle of the Church (1878-1914) Is separation ‘the’ solution? The “Roman Question”: from temporal power to spiritual freedom. Separatism, a solution to Church and State relationships? 1914-Present Day. Papacy, a ‘voice in the desert’ (1914-1939); The Church, ‘Leaven in the dough’? (1939-today). The Church in New Relations with Society. The Social Question. Church and the Modern World: The Syllabus; Modernism; Gaudium et Spes. The Life of the Church in the World. Vatican I. The Missions: From foreign missions to Local Churches: Mission and Colonialism; Birth of the ‘Third Church’. Rebirth in England. Church and Churches: The Ecumenical movement. A Renewed Church in and for the World. Vatican II. The “changing” reality of the Church: Laity; Clergy. Some “structural” changes: Curia; Canon Law; New forms of presence. Conclusion. Evaluation of the period 1789-2017. Learning Outcomes: - Students will gain a good sense of the challenges the Church had to face during this period. - They will identify the different elements of the new awareness the Church acquired about her mission: One Church, in and for the world. - They will discover the origins and development of several questions still very much part of today’s Church. - They will better evaluate the role of Vatican II and its continuing enlightening role in the life of the Church.

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