Giuseppe Lazzati e il Concilio Ecumenico Vaticano II
Giuseppe Lazzati’s report on the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican is examined here. Lazzati (1909-1986) was a great Catholic intellectual, a politician, Rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and particularly close to Pope Paul VI. He anticipated the Council’s positions...
| Published in: | Annali di scienze religiose |
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| Language: | Italian |
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Brepols
2010
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Annali di scienze religiose
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| Summary: | Giuseppe Lazzati’s report on the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican is examined here. Lazzati (1909-1986) was a great Catholic intellectual, a politician, Rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and particularly close to Pope Paul VI. He anticipated the Council’s positions on the theology of laity which he followed in his work and to which he bore witness in his life as a consecrated lay person. Two aspects of the matter are studied. The first, the consecratio mundi, was a concept which Lazzati was among the first to develop (beginning in 1953) and promote but which he later abandoned it in deference to his reclassification as sanctificatio brought about by the Council texts. The second is that of the “secular nature” that “specifically characterizes the laity” (Lumen Gentium 31), a concept that Lazzati would promote and defend, until the end of his life, against every effort to negate the unique nature of the laity within the Church and the danger of defining the laity merely through a negative comparison with the clericus. Lazzati reacted with determination in opposing theological positions that shifted the focus from the secularity of the laity to a laicism applied to the entire Church, thus weakening the role of lay persons and clerics alike. He accepted neither a substitution of the priest-laity dyad with that of ministers-community nor the idea of a lay person as merely a common Christian in contrast to Christians bearing a further designation. Lazzati’s conception remains tied to Council texts on the laity, one for which unity is a distinctive feature. He would find support in the Evangelii Nuntiandi (70). Around this idea Lazzati would build and bear witness to a coherent and interesting concept of the “political action” of a Christian as distinguished from “Catholic action”. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-8775 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di scienze religiose
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.ASR.1.100830 |