Reforming Rome: Karl Barth and Vatican II by Donald W. Norwood,Baroness Helena Kennedy

By Donald W. Norwood,Baroness Helena Kennedy

Few humans discover that Karl Barth, one of many 20th century’s maximum Protestant theologians, used to be between a pick out crew of non-Catholic site visitors who have been invited to the second one Vatican Council (1962–65) to help within the reform and renewal of the Roman Catholic Church. In Reforming Rome Donald Norwood bargains the 1st book-length examine of Barth’s involvement with Vatican II and his major effect at the reform of the Catholic Church.

Norwood examines Barth’s severe engagement with the Roman Catholic Church from his time on the (Catholic) collage of Munster to his reference to Vatican II, his conversations with Pope Paul VI, and seminars and interviews he gave in regards to the Council later on. at the foundation of in depth study, Norwood amplifies Barth’s personal very short account of Vatican II.

Barth himself frequently felt that he used to be higher understood by way of Roman Catholics corresponding to Hans Küng, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Joseph Ratzinger than he was once by means of his personal Reformed colleagues. This learn, written by way of a fellow Reformed theologian, is helping us to work out why.

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