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Preface | p. XIII |
Abbreviations and Sources | p. XIX |
Sources and Archives | p. XXIII |
Toward the Fourth Period | p. 1 |
The Difficulties of the Initial Reception | p. 1 |
Expectations of the New Conciliar Period | p. 9 |
Activity of the Episcopal Conferences in Anticipation of the New Period | p. 14 |
Paul VI and the End of the Council | p. 19 |
Signs of Concern | p. 19 |
The "Final" Period: Uncertainties and Strategies for the Future | p. 23 |
The Commissions Resume Their Work | p. 33 |
The Coordinating Commission | p. 33 |
The Work of the Commissions | p. 38 |
The Doctrinal Commission | p. 38 |
The Mixed Commission for Schema XIII | p. 39 |
The Secretariat for Christian Unity | p. 44 |
Finishing the Work begun: The Trying Experience of the Fourth Period | p. 49 |
The Synod of Bishops | p. 55 |
Works and Days | p. 61 |
Religious Freedom | p. 63 |
First Morning: Setting their Sights | p. 65 |
The Schema Comes under Heavy Fire | p. 69 |
Dangerous Innovation or Traditional Teaching? | p. 69 |
Between Two Minorities: The Churches of Different Catholic Worlds | p. 74 |
A Shaken Confidence | p. 79 |
To Vote or Not to Vote | p. 82 |
The Vote in Suspense | p. 82 |
A Vote at Any Cost | p. 85 |
Toward an Agreement | p. 89 |
The Authority of Experience and of a Confessor of the Faith | p. 90 |
The Non-Aligned Decide | p. 91 |
Building a Majority | p. 92 |
The Opponents Run out of Ammunition | p. 93 |
The Secretariat Challenged | p. 94 |
Paul VI's Decisive Steps | p. 96 |
September 21 - "The Big Day" - "A Day of Destiny" | p. 101 |
"Re-re-amending" the Text | p. 109 |
Tenacity and Exhaustion | p. 112 |
Schema XIII | p. 122 |
Philosophical Presuppositions and Theological Options | p. 136 |
Two Readings of the Contemporary World | p. 138 |
Conciliar Constitution or Synodal Letter? | p. 139 |
Winning the Vote to Accept the Schema | p. 142 |
The Signs of the Times | p. 143 |
Atheism and Communism | p. 148 |
Disputed Questions | p. 153 |
From Casti connubii to Vatican II | p. 153 |
Rethinking the Church's Teaching on Marriage and Family | p. 154 |
Marriage: West and East by Way of Africa and Asia | p. 161 |
Less Important Problems? | p. 163 |
Culture | p. 163 |
Economic and Social Life | p. 167 |
The Life of the Political Community | p. 170 |
War and Peace | p. 171 |
The Schema on the Pastoral Office of Bishops and the Government of Dioceses | p. 177 |
Completing the Conciliar Agenda | p. 185 |
The Renewal of Religious Life | p. 186 |
A New Spirit in Ancient Institutions: The Training of Priests | p. 192 |
The Church and the Problem of Education | p. 199 |
The Schema during the Third Period | p. 199 |
The Revision of the Schema | p. 202 |
The Final Votes on the Schema | p. 205 |
The Decree on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions | p. 211 |
The Seventh Public Session (October 28) | p. 221 |
Warning Signs | p. 221 |
The Public Session of October 28 and the Promulgation of the Documents | p. 226 |
The Vicissitudes of the Schema on Priests | p. 231 |
The Question of Celibacy | p. 231 |
The Conciliar Debate: Nostalgia for the Past vs. a Sense of Crisis | p. 237 |
The Work of the Commission | p. 247 |
The Intervention of the Pope and the Presentation of the Corrections | p. 254 |
The Laity: A Role in the Church? | p. 264 |
The Church under the Word of God | p. 275 |
An Irreducible Doctrinal Conflict | p. 278 |
The Text Presented for the Vote | p. 278 |
Amendment of the Text by the Small Advisory Commission | p. 287 |
The Impasses in the Doctrinal Commission | p. 296 |
Safeguarding the "Economic" Approach to Revelation | p. 297 |
Should the Schema Speak More Clearly about the Constitutive Nature of Tradition? | p. 299 |
Do the Scriptures Teach "Saving Truth"? | p. 311 |
Should the Historical Character of the Gospels Be Asserted? | p. 314 |
Is Reading the Bible for Everyone? | p. 316 |
The Intervention of Higher Authority | p. 321 |
The Atmosphere in the Council | p. 321 |
Cardinal Cicognani's Letter | p. 324 |
The Debate in the Doctrinal Commission on October 19 | p. 334 |
The Report of October 29 and the Final Votes | p. 339 |
The Significance of the Doctrinal Compromise and Its Initial Reception | p. 342 |
The Text of Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation | p. 342 |
The Significance of the Final Phase of the Drafting and of the Abiding Doctrinal Conflict | p. 347 |
Dei Verbum and the Other Conciliar Documents | p. 350 |
Enabling Theology to Become Fully Evangelical | p. 353 |
A Magisterium above all Pastoral | p. 357 |
November 18: Paul VI Looks Ahead to the Postconciliar Period | p. 358 |
Institutional Reforms for the Postconciliar Period | p. 359 |
Starting the Process for the Canonization of Pius XII and John XXIII | p. 361 |
The Final Weeks of the Council | p. 363 |
A Hectic Pace and Setting a Course for after the Council | p. 363 |
The Assembly Ready to Leave, Pope and Curia in High Gear | p. 363 |
The Decisive Work of the Commissions in the Final Labors of the Council | p. 369 |
The Working Method of the Commissions | p. 369 |
Important Figures in the Commissions | p. 372 |
The Discussion of Indulgences: An Unpleasant Affair | p. 379 |
Final Work on Gaudium et Spes | p. 386 |
The Starting Point of the Commission's Work | p. 386 |
Paul VI at the United Nations - A Conciliar Event | p. 391 |
General Trends in the Amending of the Schema | p. 394 |
The Problem of Atheism and Its Condemnation | p. 398 |
The Social Responsibilities of Ownership | p. 399 |
The Purposes of Marriage and Birth Control | p. 400 |
War and Peace and the International Community of Nations | p. 402 |
The Textus Recognitus and the Votes (November 15-17) | p. 404 |
A Violation of the Rules of Procedure? | p. 406 |
The Marriage Question and the Papal Modi | p. 408 |
Outlawing War Once Again | p. 419 |
A System of Open Relations: The Church in the Modern World | p. 422 |
Evangelization of the World or "Propaganda Fide"? | p. 427 |
The Schema of the Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church | p. 429 |
The Introduction | p. 430 |
Chapter 1: Doctrinal Principles | p. 430 |
Chapter 2: Missionary Work | p. 432 |
Chapter 3: Missionaries | p. 433 |
Chapter 4: The Organization of Missionary Activity | p. 434 |
Chapter 5: Collaboration | p. 435 |
The Discussion in the Hall | p. 435 |
Present-day Reality | p. 436 |
The Grounds for the Church's Missionary Activity | p. 438 |
The Essence of the Church's Missionary Activity | p. 439 |
Directing the Church's Missionary Activity | p. 440 |
The Role of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith | p. 441 |
The Revision of the Schema and the Final Votes | p. 443 |
Mission and Faith Go Together: An Appraisal of Ad gentes | p. 447 |
Dignitatis Humanae: A Creative Solution | p. 451 |
A Half-hearted Reform: The Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests | p. 457 |
An Overall Description of the Decree | p. 458 |
The Basic Problem | p. 459 |
The Ambivalent Answers | p. 460 |
The Perspectives of Presbyterorum ordinis | p. 465 |
The Solemn Ceremonies at the Close of the Council | p. 465 |
The Ecumenical Liturgy of the Word, December 4, 1965 | p. 466 |
The Last General Congregation, December 6, 1965 | p. 469 |
The Public Session, December 7, 1965 | p. 472 |
The Concluding Celebration in St. Peter's Square, December 8, 1965 | p. 478 |
The Council as an Event in the Ecumenical Movement | p. 485 |
The New Atmosphere | p. 485 |
Regional Differences | p. 489 |
The Role of the Observers | p. 491 |
Effects on the Already Existing Ecumenical Community | p. 493 |
Reflections and Initiatives of the World Council of Churches | p. 496 |
Developments in the Worldwide Confessional Families | p. 508 |
Lutheran World Federation | p. 509 |
The Christcatholic Church (Old Catholics) | p. 512 |
The Anglican Communion | p. 515 |
World Methodist Council | p. 519 |
World Alliance of Reformed Churches | p. 522 |
Other Confessional Traditions | p. 525 |
Orthodoxy | p. 526 |
United Bible Societies | p. 536 |
A Transitional Council? | p. 538 |
The Conclusion of the Council and the Initial Reception | p. 541 |
The Wearying Task of Ending and the "Revenge" of the Preparatory Period | p. 542 |
Characteristic Features of the Assembly: Method and New Subjects | p. 543 |
The Burden of Voting and the Maturing of the Episcopal Conferences | p. 546 |
Charles Journet and Jacques Maritain | p. 548 |
The Results of the Fourth Period and the Final Messages | p. 549 |
Toward the Postconciliar Period | p. 552 |
From Vatican II to the Postconciliar Period: Context and Conditions for Reception | p. 559 |
Ecumenical Attitudes as the Council Concluded | p. 564 |
Perspectives for Interpreting the Council | p. 565 |
The Conclusion of the Council | p. 566 |
Transition to a New Age | p. 573 |
Too Soon or Too Late? | p. 574 |
A Council for the Sake of Aggiornamento | p. 576 |
A Pastoral Council | p. 580 |
A Council of Union | p. 585 |
The Shape of the Church and Dialogue with the World | p. 588 |
Vatican II and Tradition | p. 592 |
The Parallelogram of Forces: Episcopate - Pope - Curia - Public Opinion | p. 595 |
Theology at the Council | p. 602 |
A Turning Point? | p. 604 |
The "Secret" or Hidden Council | p. 614 |
Council and Society | p. 620 |
Prospects | p. 624 |
Historical Importance | p. 628 |
Locating Vatican II in History | p. 640 |
Excursus: The Sources for the Second Vatican Council | p. 645 |
Index of Names | p. 653 |
Index of Subjects | p. 673 |
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