New Catholic Encyclopedia -1967- Volume 14 Page 299 (PLUS)

What strikes me most about this particular page is its tension. You can feel the author trying to write with the certitude of the 1950s while the windows of the 1960s are blowing open. The language is still scholastic, dense, and Latinized. But the subject is dynamic: Revelation as an encounter with a Person, not just an assent to a fact.

Today, I opened Volume 14: Pope to Revelation . And I turned specifically to page 299. 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. What strikes me most about this particular page