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Přínos II. vatikánského koncilu k obnově katolické teologie a její metody
The Contribution of Vatican II to the Renewal of Catholic Theology and its Methods

Author(s): Ľubomír Žák
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: II. Vatican Council; Reception of Vatican II; Post conciliar Renewal of Theology; Manualistic Theology; Hierarchy of Truths; Unitatis redintegratio 11;

Summary/Abstract: Starting from a positive evaluation of Vatican II and taking into account the long period over which the Council has been received, the present study examines certain conciliar documents that have had the greatest influence on the renewal of Catholic theolo-gy, in particular its methodology. First, the article underlines how the Council has evolved as a “laboratory” of renewed theology. It consequently examines the key text of the Council’s renewal programme: point 16 from the decree Optatam totius. Finally, it highlights the renewal impulses present in numbers 11 and 17 of the Unitatis redintegratio decree. The analyses of the idea of hierarchia veritatum (UR 11) are aimed at demonstrating how the Council’s most decisive contribution to the renewal of theology consisted of proposing a hermeneutics that was rethought in the light of the Trinitarian Revelation of God Love.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 35-73
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Czech
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