We
have the pleasure to inform our readers, that we already published a new study
(in italian) on the the hermeneutic of Vatican II and the metaphysics of
participation. It can be downloaded in the section Publications en libre accès (on the left side of this page), or
directly here:
https://uprait.academia.edu/AlainContat
https://uprait.academia.edu/AlainContat
In this study, we have sought
to establish if and how the metaphysics of participation can offer a valid
instrument for the “hermeneutics of reform in continuity”, which Pope Benedict
XVI encouraged for a correct understanding of Vatican II. Using the ontology of
Cornelio Fabro and the ecclesiology of Charles Journet as inspiration, we have
studied and organized under this light five great novelties of the Council: 1.
the “subsistence” of the Church of Christ in the Catholic Church, which alone
has the totality of the means of salvation, refers to “ecclesiality per
essentiam”; 2. The presence of “elements of sanctification” beyond the visible
limits of the Catholic Church manifests the reality of an “ecclesiality per
participationem”; 3. the “strains of truth”, at work in the non-Christian
communities and denominations are interpreted as means that manifest the
participability of the human condition to Christic Revelation; 4. civil liberty
in religious matters, results from the transcendence of the human person with
respect to the State in this sphere; 5. the existence of a twofold subject of
supreme magisterial and jurisdictional power in the Church, constitutes a very
particular case of univocal participation in the same perfection.
