Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Book Release: Agostino Marchetto, The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council: A Counterpoint for the History of the Council

I am pleased to report that the English translation of Archbishop Agostino Marchetto's book, The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council: A Counterpoint for the History of the Council is now available for purchase in its English translation.

We have mentioned this anticipated translation for the past few years, but to re-cap, Marchetto critiques the so-called "Bologna School" which he says has done well in "monopolizing and imposing one interpretation" of the Second Vatican Council, presenting it as a kind of "Copernican revolution, the passing to... another Catholicism". He further critiques their interpretation of the Council as an event or "spirit", rather than looking at the Council through the lens of its actual documents. It is within this historical context that Marchetto argues for the hermeneutic of continuity, or reform in continuity, and against the hermeneutic of rupture.

The book may be ordered via Amazon.com as well as other book sites and distributors.

The book is 705pp. and priced at $39.95 USD.

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