Vatican II : did anything happen? / John W. O'Malley ... [and others] ; edited by David G. Schultenover.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Malley, John W.

Schultenover, David G., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vatican Council--(2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano).

Vatican Council.

Physical Description:

v, 186 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

For 40 years a battle has been waged over Vatican II between conservatives and liberals, between those who want to go "back to the sources" and those who champion "the spirit of the council." Pope Benedict XVI is one of those who started out a liberal only to end up in the conservative camp. Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? is clearly on the side of those who think something unprecedented happened, that a genie was let out of the bottle that will never be put back. The book is a collection of articles that are without qualification some of the best analyses of the council ever written.

Contents:

Vatican II as an "event" / Josph A. Komonchak

Vatican II: Did anything happen? / John W. O'Malley

Against forgetting: memory, history, Vatican II / Stephen Schloesser

"The times they are a-changin'": a response to O'Malley and Schloesser / Neil J. Ormerod

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780826428905

0826428908

OCLC:

172521801