The Vatican Ostpolitik 1958-1978
Responsibility and Witness during John XXIII and Paul VI
by Nadezhda Belyakova, Inese Runce, Adam Somorjai, Krzysztof Strzalka, Roland Cerny-Werner, Andras Fejerdy, Thomas Gronier, Pal Hatos, Emilia Hrabovec, Pavol Jakubcin, Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Adriano Roccucci, edited by Andras Fejerdy
Paperback (Published)
(January 2016)
ISBN: 9788867285822
Price: $37.00
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The appraisal of the political dialogue and negotiations with the communist regimes of East Central Europe commenced by the Holy See in the 1960s did not provoke only lively debates among contemporaries, but remains to the present day one of the most debated questions of the twentieth-century history: should it be assessed as a fixed path to which no alternative existed, or was it a flawed initiative which merely served the international legitimacy of the communist totalitarian system? This volume enriches the results of earlier historiography with new perspectives and confirmes inter alia that a black-and-white reading (often based on a one-sided use of sources) of Ostpolitik is incorrect: just as the critical assessment, which frequently places local considerations at the forefront, requires revision, the at times apologetic outlook defending the Vatican’s Eastern policy is also untenable. Only a nuanced and source-focused analysis of the ambitions of the Roman and Muscovite centers, and of local politics and Churches, as well as dialogue between the various research trends, can help us to gain a more thorough knowledge of (and make us better understand) those fixed paths upon which the Roman and local ecclesiastics of the era were forced to travel and which limited the possibility of success.
- By (author) Nadezhda Belyakova
- By (author) Roland Cerny-Werner
- By (author) Andras Fejerdy
- By (author) Thomas Gronier
- By (author) Pal Hatos
- By (author) Emilia Hrabovec
- By (author) Pavol Jakubcin
- By (author) Roberto Morozzo della Rocca
- By (author) Adriano Roccucci
- By (author) Inese Runce
- By (author) Adam Somorjai
- By (author) Krzysztof Strzalka
- Edited by Andras Fejerdy
Other Titles in this Series
La Chiesa cattolica dell’Europa centro-orientale di fronte al comunismo
Atteggiamenti, strategie, tattiche
Volume 2
Osservanza francescana e cultura tra Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento
Italia e Ungheria a confronto
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