{"product_id":"9783039109845","title":"A Privileged Moment: Dialogue in the Language of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first major study to analyse the word ‘dialogue’ in the documents of the Second Vatican Council. ‘Dialogue’ actually translates two different Latin words, \u003ci\u003ecolloquium\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003edialogus\u003c\/i\u003e, which do not mean the same thing. After a clear explanation of the important distinction between the dialectic of Thomism, where dialogue leads to an end-point, and the modern meaning of dialogue as an open-ended process between equal partners, the book argues that these dissimilar concepts became blurred in the documents of the Council.\u003cbr\u003e A careful analysis of the interpretation of this word in a comparison across five major English translations of the documents demonstrates how the rhetorical power of dialogue was manipulated depending on how it was translated.\u003cbr\u003e A provocative assessment of the significance of the different contexts in which each word was used offers a new insight: the existence of a two-tier system of dialogue depending on who was the Church’s partner in dialogue. Nonetheless the conclusion illuminates a common subtext to all uses of dialogue and illustrates how it is possible to receive Vatican II in the twenty-first century in an authentically dialogical way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034380583152,"sku":"9783039109845","price":106.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783039109845_p0.jpg?v=1763713333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783039109845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}