Word: spiritual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned fervently to persuade Vatican Council conservatives to agree to a declaration on the attitude of the Church toward non-Christians, a retraction...
...conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture with the same freedom enjoyed by their Protestant counterparts...
...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...