Background
Giuseppe Alberigo was born on January 21, 1926 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was the son of Giovanni and Eugenia (Banfi) Alberigo.
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan where Giuseppe Alberigo received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.
The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic which Giuseppe Alberigo was awarded in 2007.
(This volume describes the dramatic first session of the C...)
This volume describes the dramatic first session of the Council as it assembles in 1962. Among its highlights are the story of Pope John XXIII's opening speech, the bishops' unexpected repudiation of the doctrinal texts they had been expected to "rubber stamp," and their overwhelming approval of a new openness in the church.
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1998
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2000
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2005
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The final volume of the history of the Second Vatican Council takes the reader through the approval of texts such as the Constitution on Divine Revelation, the Decree on Religious Liberty, the 'Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity, and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
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2006
educator historian theologian author
Giuseppe Alberigo was born on January 21, 1926 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. He was the son of Giovanni and Eugenia (Banfi) Alberigo.
Giuseppe Alberigo was educated at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan where he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1948.
Giuseppe Alberigo began his career as an educator in religious studies. In 1951 he joined the University of Florence as a lecturer and full professor where he worked till 1954. The next thirteen years he spent at the University of Modena (now the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) as a full professor. In 1967 he began working at the University of Bologna as a professor, the position he held till 2000.
Besides his teaching career, Alberigo actively explored the Second Vatican Council, relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. He edited the History of Vatican II, 1959-1965, a five-volume history of the historical Catholic Church council of the 1960s. The council introduced sweeping reforms in church doctrine and opened the church to reengage itself with the larger world. The History of Vatican II represents modern Catholic historical scholarship at its most international, open, and authoritative. It is likely to provide an understanding of the council with a depth hitherto unattained.
In his History of Vatican II Alberigo details the behind-the-scenes conflicts between those church leaders who wanted drastic reforms and those who called for caution. These details were long kept secret because of church policy, many of the debates came only to light in Alberigo's history.
Alberigo's other writings include I Vescovi Italiani al Concilio di Trento, Cardinalato E Collegialità: Studi Sull'ecclesiologia Tra L'XI E Il XIV Secolo, Chiesa Conciliate, Les Conciles Oecumeniques, Dalla laguna al Tevere: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli da San Marco a San Pietro, and others.
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2006(This volume describes the dramatic first session of the C...)
1998Giuseppe Alberigo was inspired by people he considered as a sort of guide, as his masters, namely Giuseppe Dossetti, Hubert Jedin, Delio Cantimori, and Pope John XXIII.
Quotations:
"My primary motivation for writing is the hope of offering a historical approach to the knowledge not only of Christianity itself as a fundament of human life, experiences, and culture, but also of the church and of the various other social, political, and artistic realities influenced by Christianity."
"The primary impulses in choosing my subjects were my being deeply Christian, my interest in what surrounds me, and the necessity to continue the ecumenical approach to life that my masters inspired in me."
"Starting from my first interests related to ecumenism and conciliarism, I came step by step to focus my attention on what I consider the most important event in the contemporary Church History, that is the Second Vatican Council."
Giuseppe Alberigo was secretary-general at Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII for nearly 50 years.
Giuseppe Alberigo married Angela Nicora on January 7, 1950. The marriage produced three children: Anna, Stefano, and Paola.