Second Vatican Council on the nature of saving faith
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an obedience by which man commits his whole self freely to God
THE POSITION
Dei Verbum 5 describes faith as an obedience in which a person "commits his whole self freely to God," offering "full submission of intellect and will." That joins assent and self-entrusting, but the council does not take up the question this locus asks, whether faith saves as trust or as assent formed by love. Trent's answer is not revisited.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Met in St Peter's Basilica in four autumn sessions, opened by John XXIII and closed under Paul VI. It issued sixteen documents (four constitutions, nine decrees and three declarations) on revelation, the church, the liturgy, ecumenism, religious freedom and the church in the modern world. It set out to renew how the church teaches rather than to define new dogma, and issued no anathemas. The Catholic Church counts it the twenty-first ecumenical council. Quoted from the English translations on vatican.va; the official text is Latin.
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"Second Vatican Council on the nature of saving faith", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/vatican-2/saving-faith (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/vatican-2/saving-faith).