Yves Congar famously stated that Vatican ii âhas begun to restore to us the pneumatological dimension of the Church .⦠[but] stopped halfwayâ. Focusing on Lumen gentium (lg), this article explores what its pneumatological renewal consists of. Two aspects in particular are studied: the number of references to the Holy Spirit, and the activities that the Spirit is said to undertake. lg is more consistent in referring to the Spirit than earlier drafts and the preconciliar encyclical Mystici corporis (mc), but not in all instances. Further, lg articulates the Spiritâs active contribution to the Church in a more specific manner than mc, but not always. Thus lgâs pneumatological renewal is a work in progress. As a fruit of the conciliar discussions, lg develops a more theological and trinitarian view of the Church, yet textual and redactional exploration suggests lg sometimes still uses the preconciliar Christ-focused and hierarchy-focused framework.
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âLaminski, âDie Entdeckungâ, p. 402, âDer alte Vorwurf, daà das Wirken des Heiligen Geistes in der Theologie und im praktischen Verhalten vernachlässigt wird, is auch nach dem Konzil noch nicht verstummt.â
âKothgasser, âDie katholische Pneumatologieâ, p. 631. The âdesiderata pneumatologicaâ listed on p. 651 are addressed to theologians rather than to the Council.
âY. Congar, âActualité de la pneumatologieâ, in Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, p. 16. Cf the French: âLe deuxième concile du Vatican a commencé à nous rendre la dimension pneumatologique de lâÃglise, inséparablement en elle-même et dans son rapport avec le cosmos. A commencé, disons-nous. Car, ici comme en beaucoup de choses, Vatican ii est resté comme à mi-chemin, mais il a ensemencé lâÃglise de germes vivants, qui ont fructifié depuis. Nous pensons à la place reconnue aux charismes, à une théologie des Eglises locales, à un début de Âconsidération des ministères, à ce qui est dit du «sensus fidei», à lâaction de lâEsprit dans lâhistoire du monde.â Cf. his rather similar comment on the inclusion of the Holy Spirit in lg 14âs criteria for Church membership in âLes implications christologiques et pneumatologiques de lâecclésiologie de Vatican iiâ, in Y. Congar, Le Concile de Vatican ii. Son Ãglise: peuple de Dieu et corps du Christ (Paris: Beauchesne, 1984), pp. 163â176 (first published in 1982). Congar speaks of âle début du dépassement dâun «christomonisme»â, adding that it is âLe début seulement. Cela va continuerâ, at p. 169. Congar also states that Vatican ii is often âimperfectâ and stopped âhalfwayâ, at p. 176.
âN. Nissiotis, âThe Main Ecclesiological Problem of the Second Vatican Council, and the Position of the Non-Roman Churches facing itâ, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2 (1965), pp. 31â62, at p. 61. Nissiotis, a Greek-Orthodox theologian, was involved in the Council as an observer (from the second session onwards), with a special interest in pneumatology and ecclesiology.
âSee G. Alberigo, F. Magistretti, Constitutionis Dogmaticae Lumen Gentium Synopsis Historica (Bologna: Instituto per le scienze religiose, 1975), pp. 381â428. Cf. M. Aranda, Origen y fundamento pneumatológica de la Iglesia en el esquema chileno De ecclesia (Santiago, 2012).
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Yves Congar famously stated that Vatican ii âhas begun to restore to us the pneumatological dimension of the Church .⦠[but] stopped halfwayâ. Focusing on Lumen gentium (lg), this article explores what its pneumatological renewal consists of. Two aspects in particular are studied: the number of references to the Holy Spirit, and the activities that the Spirit is said to undertake. lg is more consistent in referring to the Spirit than earlier drafts and the preconciliar encyclical Mystici corporis (mc), but not in all instances. Further, lg articulates the Spiritâs active contribution to the Church in a more specific manner than mc, but not always. Thus lgâs pneumatological renewal is a work in progress. As a fruit of the conciliar discussions, lg develops a more theological and trinitarian view of the Church, yet textual and redactional exploration suggests lg sometimes still uses the preconciliar Christ-focused and hierarchy-focused framework.
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