Michelina Tenace

This article examines the theological significance of the Second Vatican Council in light of Trinitarian revelation and the ecclesiology of the Body of Christ. Adopting a speculative and synthetic approach, Michelina Tenace offers a reading of the Council as an event inscribed within the history of salvation, transcending its merely institutional or historical dimension. The central idea is that the Council constitutes a "page" of a divine book that remains ever open, whose internal logic can only be fully grasped by reference to the mystery of the Trinity and to the vocation of the Church to gather, transfigure, and nourish the world. On the theological level, the article provides a rereading of the conciliar event that articulates ecclesial unity, historical tension, and eschatological finality, thereby offering an interpretive framework capable of moving beyond purely circumstantial or polemical readings of the Council.

This article offers an anthropological reading of Corps de mort et de gloire by Olivier Clément, a French Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century. The theologian Michelina Tenace adopts an analytical and interpretive approach, bringing Clément's thought into dialogue with the categories of theological anthropology. The central idea concerns the paradoxical condition of the human body: subject to corruption and death, it nonetheless remains the privileged locus of sanctification and resurrection, particularly through the path of repentance. The article thus highlights the internal coherence of Clément's anthropological vision, which articulates the reality of the fall and the hope of transfiguration. On the theological level, this study contributes to clarifying the place of the body in Orthodox soteriology and pneumatology, by showing how flesh and Spirit are inscribed within a dynamic of death and glory.