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  • 8 - The Church in Mission

  • from Part II - Conciliar Themes and Reception
  • Edited by Richard R. Gaillardetz, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II
    Published online:
    14 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020, pp 136-154

  • Summary

    This essay proposes that the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council is best characterized as a “communion-in-mission.” A first section shows that the council was a “missionary council” from start to finish. A second section argues that the council worked from a renewed understanding of mission that was rooted in the Mission of God and inclusive of inculturation, justice, and dialogue. The final section suggests that there is a growing reception of the council’s missionary ecclesiology, expressed succinctly in Pope Francis’s description of the church as a “community of missionary disciples.”