Vatican II : The Battle for Meaning

by Faggioli, Massimo

• ISBN13: 9780809147502
• ISBN10: 0809147505
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-31
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

A balanced presentation of the council¿s key issues and their interpretation by major theologians and church historians at work in global Catholicism.

Author Biography

Massimo Faggioli, who holds a PhD from the University of Turin, is assistant professor in the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is author of numerous articles on Vatican II and contemporary Catholicism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
A Short History of the Debate on Vatican II	p. 1
The Debate on an Epoch-Making Council	p. 1
What Vatican II Said about Vatican II (1960-65)	p. 3
Vatican II: Acknowledged, Received, Refused (1965-80)	p. 6
Vatican II: Celebrated and Enforced (1980-90)	p. 11
Vatican II: Historicized (1990-2000)	p. 15
Toward a New Fight over Vatican II?	p. 17
Questioning the Legitimacy of Vatican II	p. 19
Opposite Extremisms	p. 19
Vatican II: A Reform Council	p. 21
The Traditionalists: Opposition and Rejection of the Council	p. 24
The Lefebvrian Schism and Vatican II	p. 29
Different Destinies for Vatican II's Fringe Groups	p. 35
Vatican II: Beyond Rome	p. 38
Vatican II as the Beginning	p. 38
Vatican II and Its Ecumenical Appraisal	p. 39
Concilium, Communio, and Post-Vatican II Theology	p. 50
Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology	p. 53
Catholic Theology in New Places: Vatican II in Africa, Asia, and Australia	p. 59
The Church and the World: Augustinians and Thomists	p. 66
From Vatican II to Post-Vatican II: The New "Two Tendencies"	p. 66
Neo-Augustinian Receptions of Vatican II	p. 68
"Progressive" Neo-Thomists	p. 75
The Debate at the 1985 Synod	p. 83
The Clash of Narratives	p. 91
Post-Synod Research on What Actually Happened at Vatican II (1985-2005)	p. 91
Ecclesiology: Collegiality and "Subsistit in"	p. 97
Liturgy and the "Reform of the Reform"	p. 102
Conflicting Conciliar Narratives	p. 106
Ongoing Research	p. 112
Macro-Issues of the Debate About Vatican II	p. 118
Vatican II: The End of or the Beginning of the Renewal?	p. 119
The Intertextual Dynamic of the Council Documents	p. 125
Change and Historicity in the Church and in Theology	p. 133
Epilogue	p. 139
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 187
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