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"Because he was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement

"Because he was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the... 366 Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 362–402 Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P, “Because he was a German!” Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2006). xxviii + 332 pp. £19.99 $35.00. ISBN-10 0-8028-2885-X (hbk). Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P. is precise in his sub-title. Th is is not a biography of Augustine, Cardinal Bea. For that the reader must continue to go to Augustine Bea: the cardinal of unity by Stjepan Scmidt, S.J., 1 Vereb’s colleague and friend whose reverential but thorough 750 page work is a major source for Vereb himself, in addition to long-standing personal conversation between them about Bea. Vereb’s more focused objective is to do two things: to describe the historical origins of the (then) Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council in 1960 and to explain the origins of Bea’s ecumenical ministry, not least the signifi cance of German religious, political and ideological divisions in the twentieth century as the critical historical context out of which the Roman Catholic Church engaged with the Ecumenical Movement. It was Archbishop Capovilla, Pope John XXIII’s private secretary, who gave Vereb his main http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecclesiology Brill

"Because he was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement

Ecclesiology , Volume 5 (3): 366 – Jan 1, 2009

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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1744-1366
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1745-5316
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10.1163/174413609X12466137866465
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366 Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 362–402 Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P, “Because he was a German!” Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2006). xxviii + 332 pp. £19.99 $35.00. ISBN-10 0-8028-2885-X (hbk). Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P. is precise in his sub-title. Th is is not a biography of Augustine, Cardinal Bea. For that the reader must continue to go to Augustine Bea: the cardinal of unity by Stjepan Scmidt, S.J., 1 Vereb’s colleague and friend whose reverential but thorough 750 page work is a major source for Vereb himself, in addition to long-standing personal conversation between them about Bea. Vereb’s more focused objective is to do two things: to describe the historical origins of the (then) Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council in 1960 and to explain the origins of Bea’s ecumenical ministry, not least the signifi cance of German religious, political and ideological divisions in the twentieth century as the critical historical context out of which the Roman Catholic Church engaged with the Ecumenical Movement. It was Archbishop Capovilla, Pope John XXIII’s private secretary, who gave Vereb his main

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