The Significance of Vatican II

Francis George

This article can be found in the printed issue only.

“Keeping the World Awake to God”: The Challenge of Vatican II (photocopy)

View Issue

Volume 39.1

or Subscribe and Save 25%

Introduction: “Keeping the World Awake to God”
Opening Remarks: The Promise of the Council and of a New Evangelization
The Significance of Vatican II
“Ever Ancient, Ever New”: Jesus Christ as the Concrete Analogy of Being
The Original Best: The “Coextensiveness” of Being and Love in Light of GS, 22
Catholicity and the Mission of the Church
Vatican II’s Catholicity: A Christological Perspective on Truth, History, and the Human Person
Holiness, World, and the Meaning of Work
What Kind of a World of Grace? De Lubac and the Council’s Christological Center
John Paul II’s Interpretation of the Second Vatican Council
Family and the Identity of the Person
Christian Personalism and the Debate Over the Nature and Ends of Marriage
The Body, the Family, and the Order of Love: The Interpretive Key to Vatican II
Vatican II and the Church’s “Openness to the World”
Gaudium et spes and the Intelligibility of Modern Science
Aggiornamento and the Sciences: What Does It Mean?
The Interventions of Karol Wojtyła at Vatican II