Ethical aspects of catholic ecclesiology in the context of social strategy adjornamento

Abstract

This study analyzes the ethical aspects of Catholic ecclesiology through the prism of the social strategy of adjournamento. Verification of the actual social significance of Christianity in its Catholic confessional manifestation requires a thorough philosophical and ethical analysis of the fundamental concepts of Catholic ecclesiology, structurally modified at the doctrinal level at the II Vatican Council (1962 - 1965), which carried out an anthropological reception of the ecclesiological concept of the People of God as the essence of the Catholic Church's understanding of counterweight to its scholastic understanding as the mystical body of Christ. Such anthropologization became the impetus for overcoming soteriological exclusivism and the basis for the intensification of interreligious and actually ecumenical dialogue, as well as for the development of the latest philosophical anthropology in general in its religious, specifically Catholic coverage. The purpose of the study: to investigate the ethical and anthropological content of Catholic ecclesiology in the context of its structural resocialization as part of the adjournamento strategy. The methodological basis of the research was a systematic approach to the study of modern Catholicism, a hermeneutic method of studying the doctrinal features of the texts of the Catholic faith at the II Vatican Council and in the post-conciliar period, a phenomenological method for objective perception of the ethical and anthropological features of Catholic ecclesiology. Among the prominent ecclesial topics, one can single out the problem of Christian brotherhood, as well as social aspects of Catholic ecclesiology, according to which the main mission of the church is transformed from a scholastic-mystical understanding of the importance of the church for the world to a philosophical and anthropological understanding of it. Roman pontiffs John Paul II and Benedict XVI, as well as modern Ukrainian researchers Gotych M., Kolisnyk M., Savchuk O., Shepetyak O., were involved in the development of this problem.