Abstract

The reflection proposed in this intervention aims to highlight that the project of «re-writing» or «writing» of the conciliar texts cannot fail to take into account what today’s «magisterium of reality» presents to the challenge of defining itself as the «Church that will come» and of its understanding as «mediation of salvific immediacy» concretized in the person-event Jesus Christ, the crucified resurrected. A «magisterium of reality» pervaded by the declaration of the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the human subject which declares it superfluous to talk about a God who becomes flesh; widely impregnated by a pervasive nihilistic mentality that embodies the disintegration of the fundamental traits of human subjectivity in its dimensions and in its most constitutive structures, deeply affecting life, customs, action; it causes the dissolution of the very idea of truth, the end of the progressive, linear and ascending conception of history and, as an ultimate outcome, announcing its implosion; it makes every meaningful discussion futile with consequent forms of narcissism, atomized individualism, living without responsibility, exclusively economic conduct guided by the sole idea of profit and consumption. For evangelical and theological discernment, this entails an awareness that only within this contextuality is the project of «re-writing» or «writing» of the council possible and realistic. In this sense, the necessary re-writing operation requires a preliminary identification of the contexts and the interlocutors through a deciphering of them in order to understand that belief does not consist in a mere repetition of contents or a vague feeling religious, but offers itself as the most radical and challenging adventure available to men and women of all times, spaces and cultures.