Vatican II and the Genesis of a Community of Missionary Disciples: A Vision Waylaid
In "its deepest intuitions," Vatican II was a missionary council whose stated purpose was to renew the church spiritually and institutionally and so prepare the Catholic community to evangelize a changed, more complex world. Church leaders’ subsequent failure to correctly understand the co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Horizons
Year: 2022, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-118 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
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Apostolicam Actuositatem
B Evangelization B theologia prima B Tria munera B Ecclesiology B adult formation B missionary discipleship B Vatican II B lay vocation |
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| Summary: | In "its deepest intuitions," Vatican II was a missionary council whose stated purpose was to renew the church spiritually and institutionally and so prepare the Catholic community to evangelize a changed, more complex world. Church leaders’ subsequent failure to correctly understand the council's biblically sourced, trinitarian view of mission's object, its method and agency, led to a failure to implement Vatican II's practical pastoral aims. Although the conciliar vision was committed to and embedded in the reformed liturgical rites where it continues to nourish and inspire Catholic life today, the absence of the institutional, ministerial supports needed to complete what the liturgy instills forever blocks achievement of the council's aims. The experience of the US church provides a ready example of how Vatican II's pastoral vision was waylaid and goes unrealized yet today. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2022.37 |