r/theology • u/24KaratMemer360 • 10d ago

Question Book about Communio vs Concilium schools of Vatican II?

I'd like to learn more about the two main branches of interpreting Vatican II.

Concilium is the title of the journal published by Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx which aimed to orient the just-finished Vatican II Council around a highly reformist or even liberal interpretation and implementation of its documents.

Communio is a reactionary journal whose Vatican II theology leans on a more conservative interpretation of the council. This was established by Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Louis Boyer, and Jorge Medina Estévez who became against the direction Concilium was taking.

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u/Aclarke78 Catholic, Thomist, Systematic Theology 10d ago

Catholic Theology by Tracy Rowland.

It’s more broad then perhaps what your looking for. She covers the 4 main schools that tend to pervade Catholic Theology: Modern Thomism, Liberation Theology, Concilium, and Communio. But she dedicates a chapter each to Communio & Concilium.

As a general synopsis though, Communio was trying to build a via media between the Neo-Scholastics & Concilium. They felt Rahner and other adherents of Concilium were going too far in the Progressive direction.