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Engaging Magisterial Activism Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
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Boston College
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Horizons , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , Fall 2012 , pp. 230 - 251
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 2012

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1 The following historical survey draws on material previously published in my introduction to When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today's Church, ed. Gaillardetz, Richard R. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012), vii–xviiGoogle Scholar.

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37 Ibid., preface.

38 Cf. the complete dossier in When the Magisterium Intervenes, 183–275.

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