Religions
From the Council to Synodality: The Role of Medellín and the Theology of the People
This article reconstructs the historical–theological genealogy linking the Second Vatican Council to the synodality promoted by Francis and continued by Leo XIV, through two fundamental mediations: the conciliar reception carried out at the Second General Conference of CELAM, held in Medellín in 1968, and the development of the Theology of the People within the Argentine Episcopal Conference. The central thesis holds that the contemporary origins of synodality—understood as a way of being Church rather than a manag …