aggiornamento

Examples

• All

• The Church is now faced with the need to bring about change in itself (aggiornamento and ressourcement) while seeking to put the brakes on the pace of change in the world.

  Academic text (2006)

• Keeping these differences in view, however, it is not inaccurate to say that aggiornamento is a movement in the Church in terms of the intellectual conditions of the sixties to do what Modernism tried to do in terms of the Catholicism of the turn of the century.

  Academic text (2007)

• How Vatican II developed shows the importance of these two ideas for the debates on the Church, aggiornamento, and the modern world.

  Academic text (2010)

• Only in recent years have I realized how much their work, in tandem with the growing sense of aggiornamento in the church, influenced me.

  Academic text (2014)

• In these tasks, aggiornamento and historical theology cannot be severed.

  Academic text (1990)

• Perhaps the most forceful statement of this theoretical and political aggiornamento has occurred among the professional economists at the World Bank.

  Academic text (2000)

• The key term was "pastoral," and with it went a whole historical word association that included aggiornamento, signs of the times, dialogue, adaptation, evangelization.

  Academic text (2003)

• John XXIII wanted an ecclesial aggiornamento to renew the church in "a very clear and well-defined correspondence with the spiritual needs of the present hour."

  Academic text (2008)

• John XXIII had called all Christians to the grace of unity and understood that the approach of the Catholic Church must be aggiornamento or renovation, which called for the removal of difficulties when possible.

  Academic text (2013)

• The Second Vatican Council, marked by the spirit of aggiornamento and by a return to the scriptural and early Christian sources, affirmed the logic of doctrinal development in an unprecedented way.

  Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

R

reformation

vsaggiornamento

6 6.1

Major changes in an organization or system to make it better

is a specific modernizing process within the Catholic Church

R

religious movement

vsaggiornamento

3 3.5

A group of people who try to change beliefs and practices about faith

is a reforming process focused on modernizing an institution rather than a group

Antonyms

C

conservatism

83 4.9

A belief in keeping traditional values and avoiding quick change

T

traditionalism

2 6.5

Valuing old customs and ways, especially in religion and culture

How Modern

aggiornamento

9.9

modernization

23 4.3

updating

9 2.0

to reform

228 3.7

traditionalism

2 6.5

Surface Forms

Etymology