Pressed by a Double Loyalty

Hungarian Attendance at the Second Vatican Council, 1959-1965
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-963-386-142-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

The Second Vatican Council is the single most influential event in the 20th century history of the Catholic Church. The book analyzes the relationship between the Council and the Ostpolitik of the Vatican through the history of the Hungarian presence at Vatican II. Pope John XXIII, elected in 1958, was a catalyst. The pope thought that his most urgent task was to renew contacts with the Church behind the iron curtain. Hungarian participation at the Council was also made possible by the new, pragmatic model in Hungarian church politics. After the crushing of the 1956 Revolution, churches in Hungary thought that the regime would last and were willing to compromise. Vatican II – in the perspective of Hungary – was not primarily an ecclesial event, but it remained closely joined to the negotiations between the Holy See and the Kádár regime: during the Council Hungary became the experimental laboratory of the Vatican's new eastern policy. Was it a Vatican decision or a Soviet instruction? Fejérdy suggests that it was a decision of the Holy See.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fejérdy, András

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Preface, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, PART I. The (Ante-) Preparatory Phase of the Council (1959-1962), PART II. Hungary and the Holy See during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1959), PART III. Epilogue: After the Council, Annex 1. Hungarian participants in the Second Vatican Council and their escorts, Annex 2. Hungarian Council Fathers de iure and de facto, Annex 3. Hungarian contributions to the work of the Council, Sources and Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

András Fejrédy is researcher at the Research Center for the Humanities, Institute for History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), and associate professor of Church History at the Catholic University Péter Pázmány (Budapest–Piliscsaba)