Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His previous Oxford University Press publications include Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (2015), God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (2011), and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (2006).

With the sesquicentennial of Vatican I fast approaching, we are bound to see a spate of new volumes treating the history and theology of that council. However, not many of them are likely to match the erudition and depth of research manifest in Thomas Albert Howard's Magisterial Study.

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: "The World is Collapsing": The Papacy, Memory, and Revolution 2: Between Munich and Rome: The Formation of a German Catholic Scholar 3: Conscience and Authority: The Vatican Council and Excommunication 4: After the Council: Renown, Christian Unity, and its Obstacles Conclusion Bibliography

Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and holder of the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His previous Oxford University Press publications include Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (2015), God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (2011), and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University (2006).

With the sesquicentennial of Vatican I fast approaching, we are bound to see a spate of new volumes treating the history and theology of that council. However, not many of them are likely to match the erudition and depth of research manifest in Thomas Albert Howard's Magisterial Study.

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: "The World is Collapsing": The Papacy, Memory, and Revolution 2: Between Munich and Rome: The Formation of a German Catholic Scholar 3: Conscience and Authority: The Vatican Council and Excommunication 4: After the Council: Renown, Christian Unity, and its Obstacles Conclusion Bibliography