Recezione e interpretazioni del Vaticano II. Le ragioni di un dibattito

The author shows what, in his opinion, are the reasons for the current debate on the interpretation of Vatican II. The debate has its origin in the character of the «turning» of the Council compared to the ecclesiastic traditions of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. But it also originates in the different views on the nature of a council. In fact, while on the one hand a council is reduced, even quite unconsciously, to just a governing organ of the church, on the other hand the council's role of repraesentatio ecclesiae is underlined, the council being seen as a manifestation of the church in its most profound essence, as a communion event.