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Vatican II and Fundamental Theology

St Mary's University College, Twickenham, ocollins{at}unigre.it

This article describes and evaluates what the teaching of Vatican II has contributed to the development of fundamental theology in four areas: (1) the salvific self-revelation or self-communication of the tripersonal God; (2) the conditions that enable human beings to respond to this divine self-communication with faith; (3) the credibility of God’s self-revelation that makes Christian faith a reasonable option; and (4) the transmission and interpretation (through tradition and the inspired scriptures) of the experience of God’s self-revelation. The article also indicates how the teaching of John Paul II has been significant for developing further fundamental theology: for instance, in what he wrote about revelation being also a present reality communicated through the medium of human experience and about the Holy Spirit operating at the heart of each person’s ‘religious questioning’ (Redemptoris Missio ).

Key Words: credibility • experience • Fundamental Theology • John Paul II • self-communication • Vatican II

Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 4, 379-388 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0021140009343363


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