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Proposed by German-born Augustin Cardinal Bea, the "Jewish Chapter" reflects Bea's concern over the way the Nazis were able to misuse Christian beliefs in oppressing Jews. By absolving the Jewish people of the sole responsibility for Christ's crucifixion, the chapter, Bea believes, would remove the key theological rationale for such pogroms. In itself, this aspect of the chapter could only meet with approval from most of the council members...
...took Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchias four years to get his Marriage of Figaro past the censors; but when he did, in 1784, France loved it. By documenting the frivolity of the ancien regime, his work contributed heavily to the unpopularity of France's decaying aristocracy...
...Innsbruck's Karl Rahner; in his encyclicals he tried to find a new, less austere language of teaching that would speak to modern man. Montini, trained in the ways of scholastic thought, is more conservative by temperament, yet also seems to be tolerant toward the new. Through Augustin Cardinal Bea, he notified Scriptural scholars at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian University that there would be no more arbitrary monita (warnings) issued by conservative theologians at the Holy Office...
Resplendent in clerical robes and red cap, Augustin Cardinal Bea, President of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity, took the pulpit in Sanders Theatre March 27 to address the Divinity School's Catholic-Protestant Colloquium. In a dramatic way Bea's visit to Harvard marked the re-emergence of the Divinity School as a significant force in the intellectual life of the University. Sure of its present and hopeful for its future after ten years of growth, the School is making an effort to expand the influence of religion in contemporary society...
...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...