Abstract

The present paper offers a study on the theological meaning of the concept reception and it's use in the Second Vatican Council documents. It opens with a theological definition of the concept from the catholic standpoint to continue with other aspects of this complex phenomenon: the reception of the Holy Scripture, of the Ecumenical Councils, the narrowing of the concept during the second millennium and its recovery by the Second Vatican Council's theology. The study looks then to the development of the concept after Vatican II and finishes with a short explanation on hermeneutical considerations developed during these fifty years of reception according to a brief bibliography.