The impact of Dutch theology on the American Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council

Although we are celebrating two centuries of amity and commerce between the Netherlands and the United States, the history of theological exchange and influence between these two countries, at least in Roman Catholic circles, is a much shorter one. Indeed, it spans, for all practical purposes, only the last twenty years. It is not coincidental that it was just twenty years ago that Pope John XXIII convoked the first sess ion of the Second Vatican Council. To understand the growth of recent Dutch theology in the Roman Catholic Church, and the kind of impact that it came to have on Catholics in... Mehr ...