The Eclesiology of the Vatican II Council and its Implications on Mission Cover Image

Eclesiologia Conciliului II Vatican si implicatiile asupra misiunii
The Eclesiology of the Vatican II Council and its Implications on Mission

Author(s): Marius Florescu
Subject(s): Comparative Studies of Religion, Systematic Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: mission; opening; revitalization; redefinition; council;

Summary/Abstract: The Vatican Council II, whose solemn recess by Pope Paul VI celebrated last year 50 years, marks the entrance of the Roman-Catholic Church in the modern world. For the first time in its history, it merely admits that it is time for the ancient Church built in Rome to come under new patterns. The texts mentioned represent a first notification, solemn and grave, of this state of fact. In his opening speech, Pope John Paul XXIII had launched to the participants the challenge of expressing, through new words, the permanent truth of the Gospel: “One thing is the thesaurus of believing, another is the shape under which such truths are expressed”.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2016
  • Issue No: 04-06
  • Page Range: 44-49
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian