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7 - The Pilgrim Church

An Ongoing Journey of Ecclesial Renewal and Reform

from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Gerard Mannion
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

The council recovered a more eschatological understanding of the church as a pilgrim people. This emphasis on the “pilgrim” character of the church would prove among the major factors in bringing about the transformation of the self-understanding of the church, thereby providing a theological opening for the council’s program of aggiornamento. Combined with the emergence of an equally dynamic and open-ended pneumatological emphasis in conciliar ecclesiological thinking, this “eschatological turn” helped create conditions for the possibility of major ecclesial renewal and reform. This chapter will consider the emergence and development of such ecclesiological elements in the council’s vision, considering the key particular texts that specifically gave expression to this open-ended sense of the church’s life, mission, and relationship to the wider world.

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Ecclesiological transformationeschatologyChurch as pilgrimpeople of Godpneumatologyhistorical methodsocial justice and mission
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 115 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Aubert, Roger. The Church in a Secular Society. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.Google Scholar
Comblin, José. People of God. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004.Google Scholar
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Congar, Yves. “The Pneumatology of Vatican II.” In I Believe in the Holy Spirit, vol. 1, 167–73. New York: Seabury Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Häring, Bernard. Road to Renewal: Perspectives of Vatican II. New York: Alba House, 1966. Italian original: Il Concilio Comincia Adesso. Rome: Edizione Paulo, 1966.Google Scholar
Hughson, Thomas SJ. “Interpreting Vatican II: A New Pentecost.” Theological Studies 69 (2008): 3–37.Google Scholar
Komonchak, Joseph A. “Towards an Ecclesiology of Communion.” In Church as Communion: Third Period and Intersession, September 1964–September 1965, edited by Alberigo, Giuseppe and Komonchak, Joseph A., 1–93. Vol. 4 of History of Vatican II. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.Google Scholar
McCool, Gerald A. Catholic Theology in the Nineteenth Century: The Quest for a Unitary Method. New York: Seabury, 1977.Google Scholar
Melloni, Alberto. “The Beginning of the Second Period: The Great Debate on the Church.” In The Mature Council: Second Period and Intersession, September 1963–September 1964, ed. Alberigo, Giuseppe and Komonchak, Joseph A., 1–115. Vol. 3 of History of Vatican II. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000.Google Scholar
Melloni, Alberto, Ruozzi, Federico, and Galavotti, Enrico, eds. Vatican II: The Complete History. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2015.Google Scholar
O’Malley, John W. What Happened at Vatican II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Ruggieri, Giuseppe. “Beyond an Ecclesiology of Polemics: The Debate on the Church.” In The Formation of the Council’s Identity: First Period and Intersession, October 1962–September 1963, edited by Alberigo, Giuseppe and Komonchak, Joseph A., 281–357. Vol. 2 of History of Vatican II. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.Google Scholar

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