Table of Contents
The Documents of the Second Vatican Council xi
Introduction: Reimagining Vatican II 1
Part I Why Vatican II was Necessary
1 Crisis? What Crisis? 11
2 Modernity as Ideology 18
3 The New Thirty Years War 22
4 The End of Christendom 31
5 The Renewal of the Catholic Mind 36
6 What Kind of Church? 63
7 What Kind of Council? To What Ends? 72
Part II What Vatican II Taught
8 The Council's Distinctive Features 85
9 John XXIII's Original Intention 97
10 The Word of God Breaks Through the Silence 112
The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation
11 Sacrament of Authentic Human Community 129
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
12 To Worship the One Worthy of Worship 147
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
13 Design for a Christocentric Humanism 161
The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
14 Truth, Liberty, and the Limits of State Power 177
The Declaration on Religious Freedom
15 Witnesses and Missionaries 196
The Council's Teaching on States of Life in the Church
16 From Plurality to Pluralism 223
The Council's Teaching on the Eastern Catholic Churches, On Ecumenism, And On Non-Christian Religions
Part III The Keys to Vatican II
17 Jacques Maritain's Lament 239
18 The Council Without Keys 243
19 Keys to the Council: John Paul II 253
20 Keys to the Council: Benedict XVI 271
21 The Master Key 284
22 Christ at the Center 290
Acknowledgments 297
Notes 301
Index 341