A Council for the Global Church: Receiving Vatican II in History

by Massimo Faggioli

Overview

The Second Vatican Council ended in December 1965, but Vatican II is still happening in the global church. Catholicism has always had a universal claim, but the globalization of Catholicism as a truly world church became part of Catholic theology only thanks to that gatheringconvoked by Blessed John XXIIIof bishops, theologians, lay observers, ecumenical representatives, and journalists.

Vatican II is the most important event in church history after the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and this book demonstrates why it is the key to understanding Catholicism and its inner tensions today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451472097
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/01/2015
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Massimo Faggioli is director of the Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship, and associate professorat the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Publication Credits xi

Introduction: Vatican II, Historicity of Theology, and Global Catholicism 1

Part I The Debate on Vatican II in a Catholicism Made Global

1 Fifty Years of Debate on Vatican II From Paul VI to Francis (1965-2015) 13

2 The History and the "Narratives" of Vatican II 37

3 Forms of Procedure and Sources of Legitimacy in the Second Vatican Council 63

4 The Post-Vatican II Debate and the Post-Council of Basel Period Conciliarism and Constitutionalism 85

Part II Ecclesiology and Intertextuality al Valium II

5 The Liturgical Reform and the Meaning of Vatican II 99

6 The Battle over Gaudium et Spes Then and Now Dialogue with the Modern World after Vatican II 121

7 The Political Significance of Vatican II and Its "Constitutional" Value 143

8 Vatican II and the Church of the Margins 165

Part III Vatican II and the Agenda of the Church

9 The Relevance of Vatican II after Fifty Years 183

10 The Role of Episcopal Conferences since Vatican II: A Test Case for Collegiality in the Church 201

11 Vatican II and the Agenda for Collegiality and Synodality in the Twenty-First Century 229

12 About Vatican II and Women in the Church Councils and Postconciliar Periods in Modem Cadiolicism 255

13 The Future of Vatican II The Vision of the Council beyond the "Narratives" 267

Part IV A Council for the Global Church

14 Catholicism From a European Church to Global Catholicism 291

15 The Church of Vatican II and the Common Ground Catholicism and Citizenship 307

16 Conclusions: Pope Francis and the Shift in the Debate on Vatican II 329

Index 337