Ekumeniczny zwrot Vaticanum II z perspektywy ewolucyjnej

Abstract

The present paper examines the Second Vatican Council in the perspective of sociological theory of evolution of religions. It demonstrates that the Council had abandoned its main function (a function that catholic councils used to fulfill and were designed for), i.e. to defend borders of religious system and ecclesiastical organization, while had undertook function, for which councils as central organ of the church were not designed for and so could not effectively perform, i.e. accommodation to present fluctuations in environments in which the Church operates. The most important change during Council was an influential transduction (i.e. horizontal transmission of religious ideas) of protestant version of idea of ecumenism. It induces subtle but fundamental change of meaning of catholic dogmas moving it form objective to subjective interpretations.