Narodi, religije in misijon v dokumentih drugega vatikanskega koncila

Abstract

With the outbreak of the First and Second World War and with the onset of globalization that engulfed the whole world, the leadership of the Church had to respond to the challenges of economic, political, educational and cultural cooperation among all nations. These challenges attracted the fathers of the Second Vatican Council so much, that in the primary sources of the Holy Scriptures and the Church fathers they found texts that speak most clearly and unambiguously about the missionary nature of the Church as the universal communion of people who in the similar or same way yearn for happiness and love, but also in the similar or same way suffer from the earthly limitations of the human life. The return to the spiritual sources of the Bible, which reaches 458 Bogoslovni vestnik 79 (2019) • 2 the summit of its message in the commandment of love for God and the fellow men, enables the constant purification of the hermeneutics of the mission, both on the professional level and on the level of living the truth according to the pattern of God’s love for all people in the world. The article deals with the chronological order of the conciliar documents reflecting the new views of the Council fathers on the role of nations, religions and mission in the perspective of biblical revelation: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy; Declaration on the Relation of the Church to non-Christian Religions; Dogmatic Constitution on the Church; Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.