Augustin Bea
Neo-Vulgate (1965-1968) | |
---|---|
Motto | In nomine domini Jesu (In the name of the Lord Jesus) |
Coat of arms |
Augustin Bea,
He was made a cardinal in 1959 by
Biography
Styles of Augustin Bea | ||
---|---|---|
Reference style His Eminence | | |
Spoken style | Your Eminence | |
Informal style | Cardinal | |
See | Germania in Numidia (titular) |
Early life and education
Bea was born in Riedböhringen, today a part of
Priestly ministry
Bea served as
Consistory and episcopal ministry
When Pius XII proposed appointing Bea to the College of Cardinals in 1946, Superior General Jean-Baptiste Janssens spoke out against it, as many felt the Holy See was showing preferential treatment to the Jesuits.[3] Raised to the rank of
Cardinal Bea was one of the
Cardinal Bea died from a bronchial infection in Rome, at the age of 87.[6] He was buried in the apse of the parish church of Saint Genesius in his native Riedböhringen,[4] where there is a museum honouring him.
Impact and legacy
Bea was highly influential at the
The encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu was very much shaped by Bea and Jacques-Marie Voste, O.P. (secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission).[11][12]
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Cardinal’s death, Pope Francis called Cardinal Bea, "an outstanding figure”, who should not only be remembered for what he did, but also the way he did it. “He remains”, the Pope said, “a model and a source of inspiration for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, and in an eminent way for the “intra-familial” dialogue with Judaism."[13]
Awards
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1954 Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the Greek Order of George I
- 1960 Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1965 International Prize for the brotherhood of the Fellowship Commission (International Fellowship Award), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- 1966 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, along with Willem Visser 't Hooft
- 1967 Human Relations Award for the Society for Family of Man (New York)
Published works
Augustin Bea published 430 articles in the years 1918–1968. They dealt with archaeological issues, exegesis of Old Testament texts, Mariology, papal encyclicals, the unity of Christians, anti-Semitism, Vatican II, relations to Protestantism and the eastern Orthodox Churches, and ecumenicism.
Among his books:
- Maria in der Offenbarung Katholische Marienkunde Bd. I Hugo Rahner and Augustin Bea, Schöningh, Paderborn, 1947
- Imagen de Maria en la Antigua Alianza, Buenos Aires, Revista Biblica, 1954
- De Pentateucho Institutiones Biblicaa Scholis Accomodatae, Romae, 1933
- De Inspiratione Sacrae Scripturae, Romae, 1935
- Archeologica biblica, Romae, 1939
- La nuova traduzione Latina del Salterio, Romae 1946
- Liber Ecclesiasticae qui ab Hebraeis appelatur Qohelet, Romae, 1950
- Canticum Canticorum Salamonis, Romae, 1953
- Cor Jesu Commentationes in Litteras encyclicas Pii Papae XII Haurietis Aquas, Herder Freiburg, 1959
- Die Kirche und das jüdische Volk (German translation of La Chiesa e il popolo ebraico), Herder Freiburg, 1966
References
- ^ "Cardinal Augustin Bea (1881-1968)". Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ Time. "The Supreme Realist". 6 July 1962.
- ^ Time. "Eight New Hats". 30 November 1959.
- ^ a b "Rafferty SJ, Oliver. "Augustin Bea: Scholar, Teacher, Cardinal", Jesuits in Britain, 2014". Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ "The Roster of the Membership of the Sacred College of Cardinals". New York Times. 20 June 1963. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Time. "Recent Events". 22 November 1968.
- ^ Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Man – Forgetting "Imagining Heschel," the Play, The Forward
- ^ Tracing the Contemporary Roots of Interreligious Dialogue Archived 9 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Time. "The Supreme Realist". 6 July 1962.
- ^ Time. "The Cardinal's Setback". 23 November 1962.
- ^ America "Biblical Scholarship 50 years After Divino Afflante Spiritu".
- ^ Time. "The Catholic Scholars". 3 May 1963.
- ^ O'Kane, Lydia. "Pope: Cardinal Bea a model and inspiration for dialogue", Vatican News, February 28, 2019
Further reading
- Malachi Martin: Three Popes and the Cardinal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972, ISBN 0-374-27675-7
- Stjepan Schmidt: Augustin Cardinal Bea: Spiritual Profile (notes from the Cardinal's diary), London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1971, 298pp.
- Stjepan Schmidt: Augustin Bea, The Cardinal of Unity, New-York, 1992.
- Saretta Marotta, La genesi di un ecumenista: la corrispondenza tra Augustin Bea e il vescovo di Paderborn Lorenz Jaeger (1951-1960), in Toward a History of the Desire for Christian Unity. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Monastery of Bose, Lit Verlag 2015, pp. 159–191.
- S. Marotta, Ökumene von Unten': Augustin Bea di fronte alle attività del movimento, Una Sancta' in «Cristianesimo nella storia» (2016), pp. 541–611.
- S. Marotta, Augustin Bea auf dem Weg zum Ökumeniker, in "Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte", 2016/3.