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A PRIVILEGED MOMENT DIALOGUE IN THE LANGUAGE OF...

This 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  colloquium
and dialogus  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. 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. 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.

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