Vatican II

  • Vatican II: Fifty Person Stories
    By William, Michael, Daley

    In this book fifty distinguished authors, including theologians, journalists, spiritual writers, and pastoral leaders, offer their own assessment of the meaning of the Council and its historic documents, drawing in many cases on their ...

  • Vatican II: A Forgotten Future?
    By Alberto Melloni, Christoph Theobald

    Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the...

  • Vatican II: The Essential Texts
    By Norman Tanner

    Brings together the key documents of the Second Vatican Council so that readers may better understand the Church's positions on different issues, including its relationship to the secular world, human rights, and the liturgy.

  • Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?
    By John W. O'Malley, Neil J. Ormerod, Stephen Schloesser

    For 40 years a battle has been waged over Vatican II between conservatives and liberals, between those who want to go "back to the sources" and those who champion "the...

  • Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition
    By Matthew Levering, Matthew L Lamb

    Taken together, these essays demonstrate that Vatican II's documents are a development from an established antecedent in the Roman Catholic Church. Each chapter contextualizes Vatican II teachings within that rich tradition.

  • Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
    By Melissa J. Wilde

    Nor did they view their efforts as anything less than a dramatic change from the past. They were great men who accomplished great deeds. After this book, no one will be able to dismiss them.

  • Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning
    By Massimo Faggioli

    The book offers comprehensive presentation of the theological and historiographical debate about Council Vatican II. The attempt to go beyond "the clash of interpretations" - Vatican II as a rupture in the history of Catholicism on one side ...

  • Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims
    By Gavin D'Costa

    D'Costa breaks fresh ground in this study of the Second Vatican Council's doctrines on other religions, especially Judaism and Islam.

  • Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims
    By Gavin D'Costa

    Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims Gavin D'Costa. be clearly distinguished and be dealt with rather accurately ... The Salvation of Atheists and Catholic Dogmatic Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 126–7 for bringing ...

  • Vatican II: The word of God
    By René Latourelle

    Chiefly English translations of works originally written in French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish. Includes bibliographical references.

  • Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition
    By Matthew Levering, Matthew L Lamb

    ... science and scholarship. Because of pride, the differentiation of science and scholarship from the pursuit of wisdom and holiness was always in danger, as Bernard warned Abelard, of becoming a separation and an opposition. Indeed ...

  • Vatican II: The Essential Texts
    By Norman Tanner

    Vatican II: The Essential Texts brings together the key documents of the council.