Saturday, May 16, 2020

The Catholic Church And The Church s Eucharistic And...

In the early centuries of the first millennium, the Catholic Church emphasized and supported a Eucharistic ecclesiology. Beginning around the seventh century, however, this notion of communion through the Eucharist generally receded in favor of an understanding of unity through the authority of the pope and the laws of the Church. This juridical, centralized perspective on Christian unity persisted as the Church’s primary view of ecclesiology up until the twentieth century, at the time of Vatican II. In the spirit of aggiornamento, the Second Vatican Council attempted to harmonize the Church’s Eucharistic and juridical ecclesiological traditions by juxtaposing and reconciling Patristic Period ideals with the views of the medieval Church; though I do not believe that the Council completely achieved this theological synthesis, I consider its efforts successful in creating a renewed foundation for Christian ecclesiology. Convened on October 11, 1962, the Second Vatican Cou ncil addressed many different facets of the Catholic Church and faith. Tasked with aggiornamento, or the updating and renewal of the Church, Vatican II sought to reform many of the Church’s ideas and views in response to an increasingly modern world (270). The Council’s influence extended to the topic of ecclesiology, of course, but its scope and breadth of discussion stretched well beyond a singular topic; some other notable concerns of the Council included religious freedom, ecumenism, and dialogue with

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