Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 88 No. 3, 2018.
Original scientific paper
A Reflection on the Condition that would Allow the Fundamental‑theological Dialogue, Cooperation, and Co‑responsibility to Take Place within the Church
Branko Murić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0812-0384
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this article the author reflects on conditions that would allow a theological discourse on the dialogue, cooperation, and co‑responsibility to take place within the Church. Since some of these, namely, dialogue and co‑responsibility, are extra‑theological concepts that sparked theological interest due to philosophical impulses of contemporary dialogical thinking, the author immediately narrows down his focus by analysing three examples and three possibilities of understanding the dialogical structure of human (co)responsibility. These are expressed through the dialogical thought of philosophy of the 20th century: Martin Buber and symmetrical‑reciprocal structure of the authentic dialogue, Emmanuel Lévinas and asymmetrical‑irreciprocal dialogical structure of responsibility, and Paul Ricoeur and asymmetrical‑reciprocal structure of the self. After that the author proceeds with a reflection on theological‑foundational conditions of possibility of a discourse on dialogue and co‑responsibility within the Church. The author focuses on the three fundamental turning points that marked the theological‑ ecclesiological thought at the Second Vatican Council and in its aftermath: the turning point in the (post)conciliar Church in the understanding of the revelation as the self‑revelation of God; the turning point in the understanding of the Church as a mysterious‑sacramental communio, and the turning point in the understanding of synodality as an inner dynamism of realisation of the dialogue, cooperation, and co‑responsibility in the Church.
Keywords
dialogue; cooperation; and co‑responsibility within the Church; synodality; Martin Buber; Emmanuel Lévinas; Paul Ricoeur; symmetry; asymmetry; reciprocity; listening Magisterium.
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207867
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Publication date:
8.11.2018.
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