A council for the global church : receiving Vatican II in history /
The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. In light of recent developments--especially the resignation of Benedict XVI, the election of Pope Francis, and the Bishops' Synods of October 2014 and 2015--this volume provides an analysis of Vatican II, t...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Fortress Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Vatican II, historicity of theology, and global Catholicism
- Fifty years of debate on Vatican II: from Paul VI to Francis (1965-2015)
- The history and the "narratives" of Vatican II
- Forms of procedure and sources of legitimacy in the Second Vatican Council
- The post-Vatican II debate and the post-Council of Basel period: conciliarism and constitutionalism
- The liturgical reform and the meaning of Vatican II
- The battle over Gaudium et spes then and now: dialogue with the modern world after Vatican II
- The political significance of Vatican II and its "constitutional" value
- Vatican II and the church of the margins
- The relevance of Vatican II after fifty years
- The role of episcopal conferences since Vatican II: a test case for collegiality in the church
- Vatican II and the agenda for collegiality and synodality in the twenty-first century
- About Vatican II and women in the church: councils and postconciliar periods in modern Catholicism
- The future of Vatican II: the vision of the Council beyond the "narratives"
- Catholicism: from a European church to global Catholicism
- The church of Vatican II and the common ground: Catholicism and citizenship
- Conclusions: Pope Francis and the shift in the debate on Vatican II.