"Sacramentological barrier" in ecclesiology of the 20th century and ways to overcome it today

With the coming of the 20th century, a new period of ecclesiastical thought begins - it concentrates on the problems of the catholic life of the Church. Two key aspects - the internal structure of the Church itself and its relationship to the outside world - make up the bulk of this issue. Various attempts to comprehend this range of issues throughout the 20th century are carried out in the paradigms of the individual's humanity as the Church (10th-14th centuries) and theology of communal life (15th-19th centuries), which are correlated with ascetic contexts and church sacraments. Such an approach reveals its limitations: identifying ecclesiological and sacramentalological being, being consistently applied, leads the ecclesiastical thought either to the labyrinths and dead ends of theological thought, or - worse - to theological mistakes that can have far-reaching consequences in the life of the Church. By the end of the 20th century, mainly within the framework of the neo-patristic synthesis direction, a path to overcoming the “sacramentalological barrier” is outlined.