Vatican II : The Battle for Meaning / Massimo Faggioli

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1. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEBATE ON VATICAN II ....1 The Debate on an Epoch-Making Council ...1 What Vatican II Said about Vatican II (1960-65) ....3 Vatican II: Acknowledged, Received, Refused (1965-80) ..6 Vatican II: Celebrated and Enforced (1980-90)...11 Vatican II: Historicized (1990-2000) .....15 Toward a New Fight over Vatican II? ....17 2. QUESTIONING THE LEGITIMACY OF VATICAN II ...19 Opposite Extremisms ...19 Vatican II: A Reform Council .....21 The Traditionalists: Opposition and Rejection of the Council.....24 The Lefebvrian Schism and Vatican II...29 Different Destinies for Vatican II`s Fringe Groups .....35 3. VATICAN II: BEYOND ROME....38 Vatican II as the Beginning......38 Vatican II and Its Ecumenical Appraisal....39 Concilium, Communio, and Post-Vatican II Theology ....50 Liberation Theology and Feminist Theology ....53 Catholic Theology in New Places: Vatican II in Africa, Asia, and Australasia ...59 4. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD:AUGUSTINIANS AND THOMISTS.....66 From Vatican II to Post-Vatican II: The New "Two Tendencies" ....66 Neo-Augustinian Receptions of Vatican II...68 "Progressive" Neo-Thomists .....75 The Debate at the 1985 Synod........83 5. THE CLASH OF NARRATIVES.....91 Post-Synod Research on What Actually Happened at Vatican II (1985-2005) ....91 Ecclesiology: Collegiality and "Subsistit in" ...97 Liturgy and the "Reform of the Reform" ......102 Conflicting Conciliar Narratives .....106 Ongoing Research..... 112 6. MACRO-ISSUES OF THE DEBATE ABOUT VATICAN II ...118 Vatican II: The End of or the Beginning of the Renewal? ...119 The Intertextual Dynamic of the Council Documents ....125 Change and Historicity in die Church and in Theology....l33