Abstract

Ecclesiological diversity abounds in our Mother Church. So too are the ecclesiologies resplendent in the sixteen documents of Vatican II. These sixteen documents are the communitarian, cumulative, and progressive fruition of the application of ressourcement and aggiornamento, the principles of Nouvelle théologie – labelled as French Theology by Pope Francis. It is this théologie that shaped the intellectual vision which laid the theological foundation for the formulation of the documents. This article makes an academic voyage through the kaleidoscope of compelling and convincing Nouvelle théologie to unearth a Conciliar ecclesiology that acknowledges many emerging ecclesiologies reverberating with new pastoral approaches.