Liturgia współczesnym wyzwaniem teologii fundamentalnej

Abstract

The Vatican Council II saw the need of intensified ties between theology and liturgy. This was especially manifested in the following documents: Sacrosanctum Concilium (KL 16), Optatam totius (DFK 16) and Dei verbum (KO 8). The need first of all results from the very understanding of liturgy (KL 7). What is most peculiar to this approach is the intensified theological reflection contained especially in the first ten paragraphs of KL. This is theology of the highest order; it is the foundation of the whole Christology, ecclesiology and pastoral theology of other Council and post-Council documents. The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to this approach; and according to it, liturgy reflects the model of the blessing relation between God and man (CCC 1978). Both the historical-salutary approach in KL, and the approach in the Catechism show liturgy as the privileged place where God’s Revelation is done, which is exactly God’s salutary act.