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To: BlatherNaut
And I thought it was to save souls!

The Vatican II Church hasn't been about saving souls for decades now.

21 posted on 05/06/2014 4:20:27 PM PDT by piusv
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To: piusv
And I thought it was to save souls! The Vatican II Church hasn't been about saving souls for decades now.

"There is a gestalt-shift in Lumen Gentium, from the Church focusing on the salvation of souls, preparing them for an eternal after-life, to the Church focusing on spreading the social aspects of the Gospel within this world, now. ... I have tried to explain the strategic vision of Vatican II as a transcendental-pragmatic constructed in a phenomenological way. The ecclesial image, or myth, of the People of God is the theme chosen by the Council to exemplify this new modality of religious reflection. The "theory" of this notion of the Church may be found in Lumen Gentium, but this "theory" finds its concrete, mundane horizon (or applied practical sense) in Gaudium et Spes. In order to be incarnated in today's dislocated world, however, the People of God must assume their global responsibilities as the functionally operative Catholic paradigm for human progress and development."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1942586/posts

30 posted on 05/06/2014 6:23:23 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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