A Matured Need of Synodality

A Rereading of the post-conciliar Tensions between Theologians and Pastors

Abstract

The attempt to reconstruct the history of the reception of the Second Vatican Council comes up against the difficulty to interweave two opposing interpretations. On the one hand the present crisis of faith is blamed on the excessive autonomy of theologians; these accuse the hierarchy of having not shown enough bravery in translating the contents and language according to the existential grammar of modernity. This article intends to retrace the main events which brought  to such an  incommunicability of perspectives, capable of offering itself as an interpretative category of times passed: the years of theological dissent. In conclusion, a positive reading of the tensions is suggested between charisms within the framework of the processes of synodal-church discernment.