By encouraging engagement with the modern world and a refocusing of traditional teaching, the Second Vatican Council brought new life into the practice of Catholicism. The council's impact on the Church is still playing out today, and with many current church issues finding their roots in differing [...]
Here is a one-volume history of the Christian people from Pentecost to the present day, with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD 2000 it seems appropriate and necessary to have a new short history of the first two millennia of the Christian era. In the last half century there ha[...]
Traces the evolution of "Gaudium et Spes", one of the key documents to come out of Vatican II, from its beginnings to its eventual promulgation at the end of the council in December 1965. This book He reviews its reception by the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, and its possible future [...]
In this remarkably clear text, Tanner offers the results of years of intensive study and teaching of the ecumenical councils, provides a comprehensive history of councilor teaching, extending from the early and medieval councils to the Second Vatican Council.[...]