De Aartsbisschop-Coadjutor B. J. Alfrink Voor Een Dilemma: Het Moeizaam Ontstaan Van Het Mandement Van 1954: Archbishop B. J. Alfrink facing a dilemma: the laborious origins of the 1954 mandate.
At the basis of the draft for the 1954 episcopal mandate 'De Katholiek in het Openbare Leven van Deze Tijd' [The Catholic in present-day public life], drawn up by the bishop of Roermond, J. M. J. A. Hanssen, the vicar-general F. J. Féron of the bishopric of Roermond, and Utrecht seminary p...
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Amsterdam University Press
1996
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Trajecta
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-274 |
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B Netherlands B Alfrink, Bernardus J B Conflict (Psychology) B Catholic Church B Clergy |
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| Summary: | At the basis of the draft for the 1954 episcopal mandate 'De Katholiek in het Openbare Leven van Deze Tijd' [The Catholic in present-day public life], drawn up by the bishop of Roermond, J. M. J. A. Hanssen, the vicar-general F. J. Féron of the bishopric of Roermond, and Utrecht seminary professor A. A. Ariëns, lies the issue of authority-ecclesiology. In this theological Church doctrine, obedience and docility toward Church authority are central points. The draft attempts to restore the political unity among Catholics and to resolve the tension between the Catholic social organizations. The text also contains a very urgent warning about the growth of the Humanist Society. In evaluating this draft, it became apparent that within the Dutch episcopate there were two opposing factions. The Church leaders of the bishoprics of Roermond, Breda, and 's Hertogenbosch, together with the members of the episcopal advisory committee on the "restructuring of social organization," strove for the reinforcement of a closed Catholicism. For them, the Catholic monopoly position within society was so self-evident that they forgot that this same society was a far more complex construction than seemed apparent to the southern bishoprics. The coadjutor archbishop of Utrecht Bernardus J. Alfrink and the bishop of Haarlem P. J. Huibers, as well as experts consulted by these bishops, found this "social" mandate hard to accept. They opted for a spiritual charge with an episcopate which was less apodictic in its pronouncements and teachings. They were aware of the causal links between age, environment, and culture and religious experience and teaching, and advocated a less dogmatic and more existential approach. Alfrink ensured that a great many corrections, proposed by experts, were implemented in the final version of the mandate, final responsibility for which he took upon himself. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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