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The Church and Science in the World View of the Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

In The Spirit of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church is striving to redefine its relationship with the forces that exert great influence on the life of man. The epoch contemporary with ourselves assigns signal importance to the sciences. To these man in our time looks for norms pertinent to virtually all the spheres of his existence … and therewith for his future wellbeing (cf. the conciliar Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, par. 5).

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1967

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