Review article
The Contribution of the Second Vatican Council to the Man as a Theological Theme
Richard Pavlić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4403-7062
; Theology in Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with the question of Council's contribution to the subject of Christian anthropology. The first part of the article brings basic historical outlines of the preconciliar theological atmosphere characterized by the theological movement called "New Theology." The attention is focused on the need for rediscovering the dynamic biblical image of man who is open to the supernatural. To this end, the second part of the article is devoted to the conciliar anthropological theme summarized in the text and spirit of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, which offers a Christological model of approach to the mystery of man (GS 22). This model will resound in postconciliar theology which is the subject of the third part of the article. Besides the positive conciliar contributions to the development and systematization of anthropological matter, there is also mention of critical positions of certain theological names against the conciliar text itself. The conclusion notes that the conciliar Christological postulate in anthropology results in attempts of unification and systematization of anthropological matter, though these attempts have not been uniform.
Keywords
Second Vatican Council; Gaudium et Spes; theological anthropology
Hrčak ID:
129658
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Publication date:
12.11.2014.
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