Flipping the Page on Vatican II: A Look at Volume 14, Page 299 (1967)
It reminds us that revelation isn't just something that happened 2,000 years ago. It is something happening on page 299 , every time we read with fresh eyes. new catholic encyclopedia -1967- volume 14 page 299
This is where the 1967 text shows its conciliar colors. Prior editions might have focused solely on the hierarchy. But here, on page 299, the text acknowledges that the entire people of God, from bishop to baptised janitor, participate in the grasping of Revelation. This was radical for its time. Flipping the Page on Vatican II: A Look
Here is what a reader in 1967 would have found on that page: Prior editions might have focused solely on the hierarchy
No. The 1967 edition still bears the scars of pre-conciliar defensiveness. But page 299 of Volume 14 is a small masterpiece of transition.
For those keeping score at home, Volume 14 covers the tail end of the alphabet. By the time you hit page 299, you have long since passed “Pope Pius XII” and are navigating the final theological frontiers before the index.
If you have a set of the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia gathering dust in a rectory library or a university stacks, do not treat it as obsolete. It is a photograph of the Church’s mind exactly 59 years ago—trying to articulate ancient truths in a language that had just been told it was allowed to breathe again.