UDC

141.3:2

DOI

10.37482/2227-6564-V053

Authors

Hiermonk Ioann (Ivan. P. Bulyko)
The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia;
nab. reki Moyki 48, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5182-6310 e-mail: Bulyko12@gmail.com

Abstract

The Second Vatican Council was a unique event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Initiated by Pope John XXIII, it was intended to make the Roman Catholic Church more open to the contemporary society and bring it closer to the people. The principal aim of the council was the so called aggiornamento (updating). The phenomenon of updating the ecclesiastical life consisted in the following: on the one hand, modernization of the life of the Church and closer relations with the secular world; on the other hand, preserving all the traditions upon which the ecclesiastical life was founded. Hence in the Council’s documents we find another, French word ressourcement meaning ‘return to the origins’ based on the Holy Scripture and the works of the Church Fathers. The aggiornamento phenomenon emerged during the Second Vatican Council due to the movement within the Catholic Church called nouvelle theologie (French for “new theology”). Its representatives advanced the ideas that became fundamental in the Council’s decisions. The nouvelle theologie was often associated with modernism as some of the ideas of its representatives seemed to be very similar to those of modernism. However, what made the greatest difference between the two movements was their attitude towards the tradition. For the nouvelle theologie it was very important to revive Christianity in its initial version, hence their striving for returning to the sources, for the oecumenical movement, for better relations with non-Catholics and for liturgical renewal. All these ideas can be traced in the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and all this is characterized by the word aggiornamento.
For citation: Hieromonk Ioann (Bulyko I.P.). The Aggiornamento Phenomenon and the Second Vatican Council. Vestnik Severnogo (Arkticheskogo) federal’nogo universiteta. Ser.: Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki, 2020, no. 5, pp. 98–105. DOI: 10.37482/2227-6564-V053

Keywords

Second Vatican Council, aggiornamento phenomenon, ressourcement, new theology, liturgical renewal

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