Vatican Council II: event and theology : an approach from the diaries of M.-D. Chenu, Y. M.-J. Congar and H. De Lubac

Abstract

The Second Vatican Council has been the most important ecclesiastic event in the 20th Century. It has been the finish line of an effort of renovation that had been brewing in the heart of the Church, and whose most thorough expression were the biblical, liturgical and ecumenical movements. The theology ‘made’ by the Council played a central role; the most representative theologians who had been until then ‘paradoxically’ excluded carried out an exemplary task assisting the Council Fathers. The Council ‘event’ comes out  renewed from their Diaries which had been written in those years. It comes out of a new light, a light that enables a new reception of the Council as well as the appreciation of its theology. The author of the article analyses the Diaries of three theologians M. -D. Chenu, Y. M.-J. Congar y H. de Lubac, showing the importance of their writings as valuable sources for the council history and as proof of the decisive ‘turning’ in the 20th century theology.