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Church in the World : Church in the World, Vol. 48 No. 2, 2013.

Review article

The Council’climate: Henri de Lubac

Richard Pavlić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4403-7062 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Rijeka, University of Zagreb,
Davor Vuković ; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, University of Osijek

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Abstract

The article is dealing with the actual themes of the Second
Vatican Council on the occasion of 50th anniversary of its opening.
The accent is based on the Council’s climate which is tried to be
presented through the role of one of the Council’s participants, a
French Jesuit cardinal Henri de Lubac. The article is based on the
Author’s personal testimony of the Council’s events and on his post-
Council reflection about the Council’s meaning and importance for
the life of the Church. The first part of the article presents an outer
aspect of de Lubac’s Council role. The second part of the article
pays attention to one aspect of de Lubac’s teaching of the doctrine
of Grace concisely expressed by theologically not fully convenient
term of supernatural (surnaturel) which lets us perceive the
“doctrinal controversy” of pre-Council period in which de Lubac
was a victim of theological conflicts.
Through the example of de Lubac’s Council role a kind of
a revolution of Council events and orientations may be noticed,
which once again lets us perceive the Council’s climate by the
spirit of the Council’s return to the Tradition of the Church. As the
Conclusion, in the light of post-Council perspective, the de Lubac’s
contribution to the Council is tried to be presented through the
actuality of his Council’s thought which is summarized in his
constant insistence on the unique vision of man’s call to his
one and only ultimate destination – that supernatural – to God.
Pointing to this fundamental and supernatural dimension of man
and Church, according to de Lubac the essence of the Church’s
apostolic mission in today’s world is presented.

Keywords

The Second Vatican Council; Henri de Lubac; supernatural; Tradition of the Church

Hrčak ID:

105407

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105407

Publication date:

10.7.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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