SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lumen Gentium, Aggiornamento, Pope Leo Xiii
15 Dec 2012
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It is the 21st ecumenical council called by pope john xxiii (1958 63) but implemented mainly by his successor pope paul vi(1963 78). Father donovan said it was the end of the reformation, the period when the church was defined by opposition to protestant churches. It also ended the era of synthesis and of the. Vatican i where the church focus was on the pope. It was the end of one period of history, and a reversal to another. The bishops had always intended since vatican i to make a document regarding all the key concepts of the church. Gentium focuses on the whole life of the church, including all those within it. Aggiornamento in italian means updating or a renewal and ressourcement in. French means return to the sources, both ideas covered during vatican ii. Many experts see the second vatican council as a recovery, but neither of these ideas were in any way new.
