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15 - Professed Religious Life

from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Gemma Simmonds
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

The council’s teaching on professed religious life wished to preserve the distinctive role of professed religious men and women in the church while moving beyond a pre-conciliar emphasis on the “states of evangelical perfection.” This chapter will consider in particular the council’s treatment of this topic in Lumen Gentium and Perfectae Caritatis.

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Charismevangelical counselsvocationvows
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 266 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Brueggemann, Walter. The Prophetic Imagination. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Butler, Sara. “Perfectae Caritatis.” In The Reception of Vatican II, edited by Lamb, Matthew and Levering, Matthew, 208–33. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Confoy, Maryanne. Religious Life and Priesthood: Perfectae Caritatis, Optatam Totius and Presbyterorum Ordinis. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Johnson, Mary, Wittberg, Patricia, and Gautier, Mary L.. New Generations of Catholic Sisters: The Challenge of Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pinto, Philip. “Out of Darkness Breaks,” Conference address given at CORI Conference, Dublin, Ireland, May 7, 2011. https://psgedmundrice.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/out-of-darkness-breaks.pdf.Google Scholar
Schneiders, Sandra M. Buying the Field: Catholic Religious Life in Mission to the World. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Simmonds, Gemma, ed. A Future Built on Faith: Religious Life and the Legacy of Vatican II. Dublin: The Columba Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Sweeney, James. “Religious Life after Vatican II.” In Catholics in England 1950–2000: Historical and Sociological Perspectives, edited by Hornsby-Smith, Michael P., 266–87. London: Cassell, 1999.Google Scholar
Wittberg, Patricia. The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Wulf, Friedrich. “Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life.” In Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, vol. 2, edited by Vorgrimler, Herbert, 301–70. London: Burns & Oates, 1968.Google Scholar

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