ABSTRACT
K. Rahner’s “anonymous Christianity,” like E. Schillebeeckx’s “Christianity beyond the visible frontiers of the Church” are important contributions to the renewal of the Church. They are decisive to bring it into the new phase of “post-Constantinian Christianity.” Established power and insurgent groups, butchers and victims, exploiters and exploited: all are placed equally on the same level, judged by the same yardstick, outside any historical context with judgements that come down from above on the basis of premises supposedly atemporal and abstractly compelling. It is often necessary to hunt the fine print of the news for the practical consequences of the positions of principle assumed by the Church hierarchy in the cloaked prose of official documents. Neointegralism confirms for us that the spirit of Vatican Council II has yielded to the Constantinian Vatican as always. The immutability of the Church is exalted.
