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The second Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII between 1962 and 1965. It marked a fundamental shift toward the modern Church and its far-reaching innovations replaced or radically changed many of the practices, rules, and attitudes that had dominated Catholic life and culture since the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. In this book a distinguished team of historians and theologians offers an impartial investigation of the relationship between Vatican II and Trent by examining such issues as Eucharistic theology, liturgical change, clerical reform, the laity, the role of women, marriage, confession, devotion to Mary, and interfaith understanding. As the first book to present such a comprehensive study of the connection between the two great Councils, this is an invaluable resource for students, theologians, and church historians, as well as for bishops, clergy, and religious educators.

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"""Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike.""--from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia ""The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it.""--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University ""No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity.""--Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School ""Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike.""--from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia ""The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it.""--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University ""No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity.""--Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School ""The articles are well supported with footnotes, so that much bibliographical material is provided. The Index, which covers subjects as well as persons and places, is excellent; long entries are helpfully subdivided into sub-categories. The essays are both scholarly regarding the past and replete with reflections pertinent to the Roman Catholic Church and the life and mission of Christianity today."" --Ecclesiology"

...this volume is mandatory reading...The editors have gathered a number of internationally acclaimed authors, that guaranteed the quality of the contributions, yet at the same time they managed to maintain a discourse that is accessible to non-specialists and scholars alike...This book is very worthwhile. s ...the first place to start when studying the interpretation and implementation of Vatican II...recomended to all serious students of Catholic ecclesiology and Vatican II Kevin Mongrain, International Journal of Systematic Theology This volume of essays is distinct and salutary because of its uniquely irenic tone and willinness to engage the Tent- Vatican II relationship with a careful eye for differences in social, political, and historical context..the volume's strength is its general spirit of judiciousness and coniliation Kevin Mongrain, International Journal of Systematic Theology

...this volume is mandatory reading...The editors have gathered a number of internationally acclaimed authors, that guaranteed the quality of the contributions, yet at the same time they managed to maintain a discourse that is accessible to non-specialists and scholars alike...This book is very worthwhile. s ...the first place to start when studying the interpretation and implementation of Vatican II...recomended to all serious students of Catholic ecclesiology and Vatican II Kevin Mongrain, International Journal of Systematic Theology This volume of essays is distinct and salutary because of its uniquely irenic tone and willinness to engage the Tent- Vatican II relationship with a careful eye for differences in social, political, and historical context..the volume's strength is its general spirit of judiciousness and coniliation Kevin Mongrain, International Journal of Systematic Theology

Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike. --from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it. --Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity. --Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School Together the various contributors offer a veritable banquet of essays that are scholarly and objective, yet understandable by theologians and non-theologians alike. --from the Foreword by Jill Raitt, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia The book is a cornucopia of theological insights into the continuity and changes between Trent and Vatican II and is a much-needed corrective to the popular misrepresentations of these two general councils. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the challenges and problems confronting Christianity in the twenty-first century. No course on ecclesiology can do without it. --Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University No other book contributes more to the understanding of the Council and the Catholic Church. By comparing the continuities as well as discontinuities between Vatican II and Trent, the authors, all renowned theologians, illumine a host of central and debated issues within contemporary theology. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Roman Catholicism and how it has sought to meet the challenges of the Protestant Reformation and modernity. --Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity School The articles are well supported with footnotes, so that much bibliographical material is provided. The Index, which covers subjects as well as persons and places, is excellent; long entries are helpfully subdivided into sub-categories. The essays are both scholarly regarding the past and replete with reflections pertinent to the Roman Catholic Church and the life and mission of Christianity today. --Ecclesiology

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Raymond F. Bulman is Professor of Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at Saint John's University. Frederick J. Parrella is Associate Professor of Theology in the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University. They are co-editors of two scholarly volumes: Paul Tillich: A New Catholic Assessment and Religion in the New Millennium: Theology in the Spirit of Paul Tillich.

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