Concilium is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 of Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 theology

Theology

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. It was established in 1965 and is published five times a year. The journal was founded by Anton van den Boogaard, Paul Brand, Yves Congar

Yves Congar

Yves Marie Joseph Congar was a French Dominican cardinal and theologian.-Early life:Born in Sedan, in northeast France, in 1904, Congar's home was occupied by the Germans for much of World War I...

, Hans Küng

Hans Küng

Hans Küng is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic . Küng is "a Catholic priest in good standing", but the Vatican has rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology...

, Johann Baptist Metz

Johann Baptist Metz

Johann Baptist Metz is a Catholic theologian. He is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology, Emeritus, at Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany....

, Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...

, and Edward Schillebeeckx

Edward Schillebeeckx

Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. He taught at the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He then continued writing. In his nineties, he still wanted to finish a major book about the Sacraments.He was a member of the Dominican Order...

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Its editors and essayists encompass a range of theological scholars, also from other religions. It is published in 6 languages: Croatian, English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Concilium aims at promoting theological discussion in the "spirit of Vatican II" from which it was born. It is a Catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in the Catholic heritage, open to other Christian

Christian

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traditions and the world's faiths. Each issue of Concilium focuses on a theme of crucial importance and the widest possible concern for our time.