Daily meditation became essential; he saw that
dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.
It was recognized that the Church
needed to develop a
dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the
dogmatic theology of itself, a real ecclesiology, which would express all the truths about the Church in their correct proportions, apart from this or that controversy of the moment — a project that bore fruit in Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's
Dogmatic Constitution on the
Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.