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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 262.52
Fabric Type: 9780674031692
Legal Disclaimer: 0674031695
Maximum Color Depth: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Metal Type: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 400
Total External Bays Free: September 30, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently choreographed public ceremonies, while its debates generated front-page news on a near-weekly basis. By virtually any assessment, it was the most important religious event of the twentieth century, with repercussions that reached far beyond the Catholic church. Remarkably enough, this is the first book, solidly based on official documentation, to give a brief, readable account of the council from the moment Pope John XXIII announced it on January 25, 1959, until its conclusion on December 8, 1965; and to locate the issues that emerge in this narrative in their contexts, large and small, historical and theological, thereby providing keys for grasping what the council hoped to accomplish.
What Happened at Vatican II captures the drama of the council, depicting the colorful characters involved and their clashes with one another. The book also offers a new set of interpretive categories for understanding the council’s dynamics—categories that move beyond the tired “progressive” and “conservative” labels. As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the calling of the council, this work reveals in a new way the spirit of Vatican II. A reliable, even-handed introduction to the council, the book is a critical resource for understanding the Catholic church today, including the pontificate of Benedict XVI.
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It seems to me that Father O'Malley brought along his own reviewing staff; all unanimously in favor of his favorable opinion of Vatican II.
Their opinions include, of course, the indictment of Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict16 as subverters of the "Spirit of Vatican II", also known as "collegiality".
Of course, the evidence of that false theme, which might better be called rebellion or disobedienmce to papal authority, and which led to the woeful failure of the American ... Read More
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John O'Malley's "What Happened at Vatican II" is an excellent and well-written overview for anyone interested in learning what happened behind the scenes at Vatican II. As someone who has taken a graduate-level course on Vatican II, I did not expect to learn much new information from this book, but I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of O'Malley's research and how he dealt with all the major issues that the Council Fathers faced.
The biggest potential pitfall in writing about Vatican ... Read More
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After reading Rembert Weakland's book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church" which was excellent and had references to the struggles at Vatican II, O'Malley's book "What Happened at VaticanII" is a natural follow-up.
As a Roman Catholic who was a teen when Vatican II took place, O'Malley's book gives one an excellent background for understanding so much of the inner workings of the Catholic Church as it is today and its journey into the 20th century. I greatly appreciate the perspective O'Malley's book ... Read More
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The author, John O'Malley, is a top ranking historian, and a witness to the second Vatican council. In the post Vatican II era, there is a trend to erode the spirit of the council, and to return to a form of traditional thinking characerized by a strongly hierarchical and clerical power structure. In the modern world, this traditional framework has become dysfunctional and was in need of aggiornamento as Pope John XXIII frased it. John O'Malley's acount of the council revives the original spirit and keeps ... Read More
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Both an entertaining and sobering history of one of the greatest religious events of the past several hundred years. Father O'Malley provides a summary of the Catholic Church's struggle to adapt to the modern world since the French Revolution. The story of the Council itself is an engrossing tale of determined reformers and intransigent sabotage by a tiny minority. Paul VI's well-intentioned interventions toward the end of the Council appear to have done more harm than good. The author avoids any discussion ... Read More
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