scholarly journals Conversion as the Path to the Recovery of Humanity in the Context of St John Paul II’s Theology of Holiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Magda Bušková
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Internal Process ◽  
Christian Conversion ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Spiritual Theology

The study focuses on Pope John Paul II’s view of conversion as an essential aspect of holiness. It explores why he emphasises the personal conversion of a Christian to God, and in a broader context, how conversion relates to the recovery of humanity and human dignity. The reflection is based on the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, especially as presented in the documents Gaudium et Spes and Lumen Gentium. Conversion is viewed from the perspective of spiritual theology and the union between God and the human person and focuses on some related features from John Paul II’s ‘Trinitarian’ group of encyclicals. The reflection also examines the importance of Christian conversion to God as an internal process of transformation in the human person in the context of both internal ruptures and external existential threats.

A Theocentric Vision of Culture in John Paul II

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Steven J. Meyer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Intellectual Legacy

This essay explores John Paul II’s intellectual legacy as a champion for a theocentric view of culture that emphasizes the human person and human dignity in quest for human self-realization in a community that seeks the transcendence of God. His theopocentric vision for culture is defined in the context of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council. John Paul’s theological anthropology is grounded in personalism, communion, dialogue, and freedom. When God is eclipsed from human activity, particularly via the “shadow” of secularism, it engenders the crisis of culture. John Paul’s articulation of dialogue emphasizes inculturation and evangelization. His Trinitarian and social encyclicals reflect a theocentric and anthropocentric vision for culture, while his Polish and literary background show his thoughts on culture not as teachings but as integrated into his life experience. The essay concludes with reflections on Mary and the challenge of dialogue in a multicultural world.

scholarly journals O ESTILO PASTORAL DO VATICANO II E SUA RECEPÇÃO PÓS-CONCILIAR ELABORAÇÃO DE UMA CRITERIOLOGIA E ALGUNS EXEMPLOS SIGNIFICATIVOS

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (123) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Christoph Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
The World ◽  
Canonical Formulas

Em diálogo com a leitura de John W. O’Malley sobre o Concílio Vaticano II, o presente artigo analisa seu corpus textual e se pergunta sobre seu “estilo pastoral”. Desde sua preparação, o Concílio se caracterizou por um processo de intercompreensão conciliar e ecumênica. Seu estilo afastou-se das fórmulas canônicas, eliminando os anátemas e aproximando-se do estilo evocativo, bíblico (narrativo, parenético, deliberativo, doxológico). Os preâmbulos das Constituições Dei Verbum, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen Gentium e Gaudium et Spes permitem avaliar esse “estilo pastoral” e as consequências para a recepção visível na exortação Evangelii nuntiandi, na encíclica Ut unum sint e no encontro inter-religioso de Assis em 1986. À guisa de conclusão, recorda que o estilo cria o mundo que o texto habita. Daí o valor heurístico desta abordagem na análise da recepção do Vaticano II e a determinação de uma autêntica fidelidade ao espírito e à letra do Concílio, em contraste com outros textos que revelam o conflito entre esse “estilo pastoral” e a tradição dogmática.ABSTRACT: In dialogue with the reading of John W. O’Malley on the Second Vatican Council this article analyzes its textual corpus and questions its “pastoral style.” Since its preparation, the Council was characterized by a process of conciliar and ecumenical mutual understanding. Its style departed from the canonical formulas, eliminating the anathemas and approaching the evocative style, Biblical (narrative, parenetical, deliberative, doxological). The preambles of the Constitutions Dei Verbum, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes assess this “pastoral style” and the consequences for the visible reception in the exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, in the Encyclical Ut unum sint and in the interreligious meeting in Assisi in 1986. By way of conclusion it points out that the style creates the world in which the text dwells. Hence the heuristic value of this approach in the analysis of the reception of Vatican II and the determination of an authentic fidelity to the spirit and to the literal meaning of the Council, in contrast with other texts that reveal the conflict between this “pastoral style” and the dogmatic tradition.

scholarly journals Soborowe źródła prawa małżeńskiego w Kodeksie prawa kanonicznego z 1983 roku

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Marek Saj
Keyword(s):  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Marital Law

Documents of the Second Vatican Council became essential root of the Canon Code Law of 1983. There is a number of references to conciliar constitutions, decrees and declarations in each Canon Book. This is true also in regard to the marital law included in Ćanons 1055-1165. Amongst sources which were inspirations for the aforementioned marital law there were the following constitutions: Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen gentium, and Gaudium et spes; and decrees: Orientalium...., Unitatis..., Christus...and Apostolicum and also Gravissimum. Lawmaker makes 34 references to these documents. The conducted analysis allows to show to what extend norms of the marital law remain under the  influence of the Second Vatican Council. 

scholarly journals Calcedônia e Constantinopla II e III: os dogmas cristológicos na Gaudium et Spes 22 e a Imago Dei

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago De Moliner Eufrásio
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Vatican Council

Resumo: A Imago Dei foi um tema difundido e estudado até o início da modernidade.Depois de um tempo de silêncio, foi retomado pelo Concilio VaticanoII para reafirmar o fundamento da dignidade humana na Constituição PastoralGaudium et Spes, no parágrafo 22. A constituição Pastoral retoma esta temáticatendo como base os dogmas cristológicos de Calcedônia e Constantinopla IIe III que afirmam, respectivamente, as duas naturezas e as duas vontades deCristo. Ao fazer esta retomada, aponta para a atualidade e relevância da reflexãoantropológico-cristocêntrica, acerca da temática Imago Dei.Palavras-chave: Imago Dei. Calcedônia. Concílio Vaticano II. Constantinopla.Gaudium et Spes.Abstract: The Imago Dei was a theme widespread and studied until the beginningof modernity. After a time of silence it was taken up by the Second VaticanCouncil to reaffirm the foundation of human dignity in the Pastoral ConstitutionGaudium et Spes in paragraph 22. The Pastoral Constitution takes up this themebased on the Christological dogma of Chalcedon and Constantinople II and IIIthat claim respectively, the two natures and the two wills of Christ. By doing thisrecovery, it points to the timeliness and relevance of anthropological christocentricreflection about the Imago Dei theme.Keywords: Imago Dei. Chalcedon. The Second Vatican Council. Constantinople.Gaudium et Spes.

The Second Vatican Council

2016 ◽  
pp. 781-802
Author(s):  
Gavin D'Costa
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
The Church

This chapter considers the Second Vatican Council (1959–65) and its reception. The first half of the chapter focuses on the four central ‘constitutions’ promulgated by the council: Lumen gentium on the nature and structure of the Church; Dei Verbum on the nature of revelation; Sacrosanctum Concilium on the liturgy; and Gaudium et spes on the Church in the modern world. The second half of the chapter considers the different ways in which the teachings of the council have been interpreted. A six-fold categorization of responses is outlined. The chapter then focuses on two of these categories, and parallels their different approaches with different strands in modern biblical interpretation.

scholarly journals Dar nieomylności. Od Pastor aeternus do Sensus fidei

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ferdek
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

Second Vatican Council took over from the first Vatican Council the doctrine on infallible teaching of the Bishop of Rome, approved it and presented in more complete context. It is the teaching of Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium on infallibility of bishops when together with the pope they exercise the Church's Magisterium, and on supernatural sense of faith of all people, thanks to which they cannot get lost in faith. International Theological Commission issued “Sensus fidei” in the life of the Church, a document which deals with the issue of supernatural sense of faith of all people of God. This document presents sufficient theology of sensus fidei and therefore it is possible to attempt to place the dogma about the pope’s infallibility into more complete context which sensus fidei is a part of. Three carriers of infallibility in the Church: the pope, the college of bishops and sensus fidei are complementary to one another when it comes to explanation and defence of the divine Revelation. None of them can form anything new in relation to the Revelation. All together serve infallibility given to the Church by the Spirit of Truth.

The Statute of the Man in the Modern Catholic Anthropology

1998 ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Ivan Kaltchev
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Catholic Anthropology

In what follows, I examine the renaissance of the idea of freedom as a fundamental measure of humanity in the work of Karol Voitila (Pope John Paul II). I examine as well Karol Voitila's concept of the human person as found in his work "Love and Responsibility" as well as the encyclical Evangelium vitae, which affirms the incomparable value of the human person. I also consider the celestial predestination of the human person as discussed in the documents of the Second Vatican Council.

scholarly journals “If You Want Peace, Work For Justice:” Assessing Pope Paul VI as a Peacebuilder on the Levels of Insight and Action

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hrynkow
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Annual World

Paul VI was the first reigning pope to travel via airplane. On one such trip, he addressed the UN General Assembly, emphatically declaring “War never again! Never again war!” During the same period, Paul VI also saw the Second Vatican Council through to its completion. Vatican II produced an articulation of substantive peace in one of its final documents, Gaudium et Spes. This article employs an analytical yardstick through reading Gaudium et Spes in conversation with a Peace and Conflict Studies perspective, as a means to assess Paul VI’s peacemaking efforts on the levels of insight and action. Specifically, this article addresses Paul VI’s diplomatic initiatives, ecumenical outreach, and his contributions to Catholic Social Teaching, inclusive of the establishment of the annual World Day for Peace Messages. One of those messages is the source of what is his most repeated social teaching: “if you want peace, work for justice.”

scholarly journals Missiological Implications of Conscience in Present-Day Roman Catholicism

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Reid Karr
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Letter Exchange

During Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Papacy, The Theology Of Conscience Has Taken On A Significant Role. A Developed Theology Of Conscience Emerged During The Second Vatican Council, Most Notably With Gaudium Et Spes, And Later Developed As Essential In Moral Theology. Francis Is The First Pope To Fully Embody Vatican II Teachings, In Particular In His Incorporation Of The Conscience Into Theology And Practice. During The First Months Of His Papacy, He Made It Clear That Conscience Is Crucial To His Theology And, In A Letter Exchange With A Prominent Italian Journalist, He Underscored Obedience To One’s Conscience As The Key To Receiving Forgiveness Of Sins. This Development Has Tremendous Theological And Missiological Implications For The Roman Catholic Church. KEYWORDS: Roman Catholicism, Pope Francis, conscience, missiology, morality, Vatican II, Gaudium et spes

Mariology at and after the Second Vatican Council

2019 ◽  
pp. 515-530
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Calkins
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Formal Treatment ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Constant Tension ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Intense Debate

The formal treatment of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) was solemnly promulgated on 21 November 1964 as the eighth and final of the council’s most foundational document Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. There was intense debate over whether there should be a separate document on Mary or whether it should be included in the document on the Church. By a margin of just forty votes it was decided to include the document on Mary in the constitution on the Church. There was a constant tension between presenting Mary in terms of her analogy with Christ and her analogy with the Church. After eight drafts, a remarkable balance was achieved. While the Council Fathers had no intention of saying a final word on Mary, they presented a biblical-dogmatic treatise that provides a solid foundation for teaching about Mary, which continued to be developed and commented on by the postconciliar popes, especially by Pope Saint John Paul II.

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