Toward a Listening and Empathetic Church? A Synodal Hermeneutic for Theology in Three Historical Vignettes
Pope Francis recently described synodality, which St. John Paul II introduced into the vocabulary of the Church,[1] as a “challenge” and as a “journey.”[2] In what follows I will first determine what could be understood by these terms, then outline what synodality could mean for the study of Church history,