The Church is built on Christ; the Church lives from the life of God which Christ reveals. But it is also built on history and on the lives and deaths of apostles, martyrs and countless unheralded saints. This Supplement is intended as a commentary on that complex yet highly evocative metaphor. More broadly it is concerned with the ecclesial dimensions of Christian spirituality and with the current interest in the renewal of both the idea and the practical reality of the Church. The theme of ‘refounding’ was first applied, some years back, to the search for a new authenticity in religious life. Vatican II has asked religious to return to their roots and to relearn the original inspiration of the founder. But this Supplement is not intended as yet another commentary on Vatican II. We are concerned with the way the Church—the ‘sign and sacrament’ of the Word, in the Council’s language—an enhance Christian spirituality and living. The metaphor of refounding is valid as long as it is taken as referring to the way in which Christian discipleship is inseparable from the social and historical structures which make up—but do not, of course, exhaust—the reality of the Church.
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