Austin Flannery (Books)

Austin Flannery Books

This author delves into profound spiritual and reformist questions, often emphasizing the need for renewal and the application of church documents. His work is characterized by a keen insight into theological themes and the necessity of contemplating their practical implications. He explores how to interpret and implement significant spiritual and ecclesiastical decisions. His literary style is meticulous and focused on clear explanations of complex ideas.

Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations: The Basic Sixteen Documents

610 pages
22 hours of reading

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The sixteen official documents--constitutions, decrees, and declarations--of the Second Vatican Council are now available from Liturgical Press in the most popular and widely used inclusive-language edition translated by Irish Dominican Austin Flannery (+October 21, 2008). As the worldwide Church continues to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Council (1962-65), there is a great need in college classrooms and parish faith formation groups--as well as for individuals--to again have access to these documents in contemporary English. As Flannery wrote in his introduction to the 1996 edition, "The translation of the texts of the Vatican documents in the present volume differs from that in the previous publication in two respects. It has been very considerably revised and, in place, corrected. It is also, to a very large extent, in inclusive language. "I say 'to a very large extent, ' because we have used inclusive language in passages about men and women but not, however, in passages about God, except where the use of the masculine pronoun was easily avoidable."