Thursday, January 27, 2011

Butterfly Prom Dresses

reconcile. The methodological problem of the approach.

A conference Milan (April 2010) for the presentation of the book by John W. O'Malley Jesuit professor at Georgetown University in Washington: What happened at Vatican II , published by Life and Thought, allowed to declare:
"Paradoxically, the forces that seem to question the sense of 'event in the life of the Church can reconcile are perhaps revealing all the fertility. Whoever touches the council has the effect to strengthen and highlight its roots in the consciousness of the Church. "
We see therefore that the discussions strictly parallel likely to continue indefinitely and without sense. L 'axis around which revolve all the main threads and hermeneutics. Many faithful interpreters of the "spirit of the Council" insist on the impossibility to dissociate and thus oppose the letter and spirit of the council itself because, they argue, this is consistent with the fundamental option that has characterized its form of expression "epideictic "ie" its pastoral character, "which involved the use of a language instead of dialogue and urges" apodictic, ie demonstration. He preferred the 'description' putting together a series of elements whose cohesion in the end proves apodictically artificial being sidelined la 'dimostrazione' e quindi la 'prescrizione'. Il risultato, paradossale, è che ora ci si trova di fronte ad un insieme che ha fatto della sua disinvolta 'descrittività' con intenti pastorali qualcosa di intoccabile e rigidamente prescrittivo. Un ingranaggio, che non esiterei a definire perverso e difficilmente smontabile finché ci saranno molti improvvidi custodi ad ungerne le ruote.

Fermarsi ad una visione del genere porterebbe all'impossibilità di far chiarezza nella confusione, che ormai regna sovrana, anche perché chi ci è dentro mani e piedi neppure se ne accorge, anzi ci si avviluppa sempre di più.

Il Convegno di Roma dello scorso dicembre ha dimostrato, invece, la possibilità -anzi la necessità- di non doversi prendere il concilio come "un blocco unico" né come "evento mitizzato ed intoccabile", e quindi non tutto infallibile ...

In definitiva, ci si chiede se la ragione principale per la quale la questione dell'interpretazione sfocia su una querelle senza fine non risieda specificamente nella natura stessa di ciò che è interpretato, cioè nell'insieme dei testi e dell'avvenimento del Vaticano II in ciò che essi hanno di confuso e di atipico; ma è una domanda che esige una risposta, implicita nel fatto che ciò che è confuso e atipico can not and must not take place in the Church Mater et Magistra . We rescued the statement of Fr Lanzetta that in hermeneutic difficulty lies the lack of metaphysics that is the problem of form and substance: the modernity is losing clarity, accusing the legal dogmatism, but set aside the metaphysical significance is the faith that is put aside in a corner .

It 'important to take into consideration the fact, duly registered by Fides Catholica, that the first critical responses that have come to the conference, show, however, a problem of methodology, not only to the most recent authoritative texts ( is that of Professor De Mattei than that of Bishop Gherardini ) because, more generally, the question "Vatican Council II."

For this reason I post, among the documents made available to enhance the consultation in the left column at the top of the blog, a text of Professor John Turkish: Vatican Council II: the problem methodological approach, because an important central problem of hermeneutics, and relied so felt by all, but the approach is strongly linked to the texts of the Council and their wealth and / or roughness determined by mindset interpreter. Fides Catholica, from which I took writing, so effectively summarizes: "... The author of the study, researchers at the University of Udine, leads to three possible approaches models:
  1. that of practice;
  2. the phenomenal-sociological;
  3. or ontological truth. Only the latter, he explains, is able to establish dialogue with these two books. "
Advance here the final piece:
[...] "If the faith (Christian) is rationabile obsequium and is a fides quaerens intellectum , it demands to be thought of in theoretical terms (ie in terms of the essential truth). The prassismo or phenomenon (even with the best intentions, which, moreover, are not relevant in terms of value judgments) not allow - precisely because these - to think in terms of truth .

On the other hand, if some documents and records pose problems, because there would be obliged to ignore them? Noted significant problems encountered questions that demand answers. Every opportunity to put in issue the facts and issues that can not be regarded as auspicious for the need to understand - and then to penetrate intellectually - by going beyond questionable. Seek answers in terms di verità – con sagacia ed con accuratezza, con generosità e con coraggio – costituisce, a ben vedere, l’unica strada autentica, ovvero razionale e teologale, per soddisfare l’ esigenza di capire e quindi anche quella di rendere ragione (sotto il profilo storico, filosofico e teologico) ."
Buona lettura. E speriamo vengano fuori spunti per alimentare ulteriormente il dibattito.

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