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Theologians today take for granted that the principal achievement of the Second Vatican Council was its dogmatic constitution on the Church, ""Lumen Gentium"". The central core of this central document - its vision of Church as communion - is also being taken for granted. But this vision was hard won - or, rather, or recovered - at the Council, and its significance should not be allowed to fade with time or familiarity. This work emanates from the ecclesiology of Vatican II as a systematic treatment of this vision of communion - graced, prophetic, sacramental, spiritual and ministerial. It is about a Church in communion with the laity, the hierarchy and with all the Churches.

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Michael G. Lawler, PhD, Amelia and Emil Graff Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Creighton University, received his training in theology at Dublin, Oxford, Rome, and St. Louis. He was a member of the Theology Department at Creighton for thirty-five years and is a prolific lecturer and writer. He has published twenty-two books and some 150 scholarly essays on topics related to sacraments, marriage, and sexuality. His most recent books are co-authored with Todd Salzman: the award winning and best-selling The Sexual Person: Towards a Renewed Catholic Anthropology (Georgetown University Press, 2008); Sexual Ethics: A Theological Introduction (Georgetown University Press, 2012). Dr. Lawler and his wife Susan have three adult children and four grandchildren. Thomas J. Shanahan, S.J., is a professor and chair of the department of theology at Creighton University.

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