Concilium

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Concilium

description international journal of Roman Catholic theology
publishing company Matthias Grünewald Publishing House
First edition 1965
Frequency of publication five times a year
Web link concilium.in
ISSN (print) 0588-9804

Concilium is an international journal for Roman Catholic theology. The magazine was founded in 1965 and is currently published five times a year. It was founded by Anton van den Boogaard, Paul Brand, Yves Congar , Hans Küng , Johann Baptist Metz , Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx . Concilium is generally assigned to the reform wing of Catholic theology.

Alignment

The editorial and authorship comes from a very broad spectrum. You can find not only important Catholic theologians from all over the world, but also representatives of other churches and religions.

Concilium would like to promote the theological discussion in the "spirit of the Second Vatican Council " from which the magazine was born. It sees itself as Catholic in the broadest sense: Rooted in the Catholic heritage, open to other Christian traditions and world religions. The individual issues of the magazine each focus on a specific topic. As authors from Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe have their say, the various facets of the Catholic world church are taken into account.

A theological orientation point of Concilium is the document Gaudium et spes , one of the central texts of the Second Vatican Council. It says: “Joy and hope, sorrow and fear of people today, especially the poor and afflicted of all kinds, are also joy and hope, sorrow and fear of Christ's disciples.” ( Gaudium et spes , Art. 1) for Concilium expresses that the life situations of people today, oppression and need, the demand for justice and respect etc. must be topics of theology. For Concilium, theology does not only refer to questions of salvation, redemption and eternity. The topics of Concilium accordingly include migration and globalization, China and Christianity, homosexualities, women, learning from other religions, sexual abuse, Christianity and democracy, etc. The magazine is therefore an international forum for liberation theological , feminist , political and other contextual workers Theologians.

Concilium is widely regarded as the sister and rival of Communio magazine , which was founded in 1972 by critics of Concilium's reformist positions . Mention should be made of Hans Urs von Balthasar , Henri de Lubac and Joseph Ratzinger , who later became Pope Benedict XVI.

In 2015, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary , Concilium was awarded the "Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church".

structure

The magazine is published by an elected body of twenty theologians who are at home in Africa, Asia, Australia / Oceania, Europe, North and South America. The group of editors is presided over by a four-person executive committee. The headquarters are in Madras / Chennai (India). Concilium appears regularly in German, English, Italian, Croatian, Portuguese and Spanish in identical editions. The individual issues of the magazine usually contain a thematic focus as well as a “theological forum” that takes up current issues and is open to contributions to the discussion.

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