Second Vatican Council

Gerald O'Collins, SJ, (1931-2024), was an adjunct professor at Australian Catholic University and a research fellow at the University of Divinity in Melbourne. He taught at the Gregorian University in Rome for thirty-three years and was well known as a lecturer and broadcaster around the world. Fr. O'Collins has had hundreds of articles published in professional and popular journals and authored or co-authored sixty-seven books, including The Second Vatican Council: Message and Meaning (Liturgical Press, 2014).

"The work of Gerald O'Collins, particularly this book, is a wonderful example of the vitality of the theology of Vatican II in light of the New Evangelization. It is also a much-needed correction to the unnecessary controversy that has recently surrounded Vatican II in some ecclesiastical quarters."Massimo FaggioliAuthor of True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium

• ContentsPreface   viiList of Abbreviations   xiii1   Ressourcement and Vatican II   12   Does the Second Vatican Council Represent Continuity or Discontinuity?   253   Sacrosanctum Concilium as a Hermeneutical Key for Vatican II   574   Vatican II on the Liturgical Presence of Christ   895   Vatican II on Other Living Faiths   1056   Implementing Nostra Aetate   1247   Dei Verbum and Revelation   1408   Vatican II and Fundamental Theology   1589   Was the Teaching of Vatican II Nourished and Ruled by the Word of God?   17710   Concluding Reflections   206Appendix: The Reform of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith   211Select Bibliography   215Biblical Index   217Index of Names   220