Gaudium et spes — La alteración de un orden lógico y teológico Debates en el cuarto período (1965) del Vaticano II

Abstract: Although they could not explain the exact nature of the methodological novelty at stake in Gaudium et spes, most participants of the Council realised it. This article focuses on discussions in the Conciliar Aula in the months of September and October 1965 (approximately 550 oral and written interventions were presented). Under this perspective, the debate was focused on the title of the Constitution: “no one had ever heard of a constitutio pastoralis” (Borgman). The transformation of the existing “logical and theological order” (Congar) ‒ summarized in the title introduced in the scheme in April 1965 ‒ became an essential part of the official beginning of a “world Church” (Rahner) that recognized a renewed significance to the cultural, geographical and temporally context.