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Relevant Books on the Interpretation and Reform of Vatican II

Below is a list of outstanding examples of this scholarship. Though there exists some overlap,
this activity falls into of three main categories:
1) The historical examination of Vatican II, i.e., of the “event,” the documents as whole, or
individual documents, e.g., Alberigo, De Mattei, Komonchak, Wicks, Marchetto,
Buhlman, Gaillardetz, Lamberigts, Kobler, Ratzinger, etc.,
2) The interpretation of Vatican II, e.g., Rush, O’Malley, Schultenover, Faggioli/Vicini,
Gaillardetz, Hünermann, Clifford, etc., and
3) The reception/implementation of Vatican II, e.g., Wojtyła, Lamb/Levering, Theobald,
Bellitto, etc.

Catholic University of America Press Publications


(2018) Wicks, Jared, Investigating Vatican II: Its Theologians, Ecumenical Turn, and Biblical
Commitment (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018).
“Investigating Vatican II is a collection of Fr. Jared Wicks’ recent articles on Vatican II, and presents the
Second Vatican Council as an event to which theologians contributed in major ways and from which
Catholic theology can gain enormous insights. Taken as a whole, the articles take the reader into the
theological dynamics of Vatican II at key moments in the Council’s historical unfolding. Wicks promotes a
contemporary re-reception of Vatican II’s theologically profound documents, especially as they featured
God’s incarnate and saving Word, laid down principles of Catholic ecumenical engagement, and articulated
the church’s turn to the modern world with a new ‘face’ of respect and dedication to service. From the
original motivations of Pope John XXIII in convoking the Council, Investigating Vatican II goes on to
highlight the profound insights offered by theologians who served behind the scenes as Council experts. In
its chapters, the book moves through the Council’s working periods, drawing on the published and non-
published records, with attention to the Council’s dramas, crises, and breakthroughs. It brings to light the
bases of Pope Francis’s call for synodality in a listening church, while highlighting Vatican II’s mandate to
all of prayerful biblical reading, for fostering a vibrant ‘joy in the Gospel.’”
(2017) Levering, Matthew, An Introduction to Vatican II as an On-going Theological Event
(Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). An Introduction to
Vatican II offers “a detailed summary of each of its four central documents―the dogmatic
constitutions―followed by explanations of how to interpret them. In contrast to other introductions, which
pay little attention to the theological soil in which the documents of Vatican II germinated, Levering offers
a reading of each conciliar Constitution in light of a key theological author from the era: René Latourelle,
SJ for Dei Verbum (persons and propositions); Louis Bouyer, CO for Sacrosanctum Concilium (active
participation); Yves Congar, OP for Lumen Gentium (true and false reform); and Henri de Lubac, SJ for
Gaudium et Spes (nature and grace).”
(2012) Bellitto, Christopher M. and David Zachariah Flanagin, eds., Reassessing Reform: A
Historical Investigation into Church Renewal (Washington, DC: The Catholic University
of America Press, 2012). “[I]n celebration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the publication of The Idea of
Reform and the Second Vatican Council, Reassessing Reform explores and critiques the enduring
significance of Ladner’s study, surveying new avenues and insights of more recent reform scholarship,
especially concerning the long Middle Ages. Contributors aim to reassess Ladner’s historical and
theological examination of the idea of reform in the Christian tradition, with a special focus on its meaning
from the end of the patristic age to the dawn of modernity, through case studies and historiographical
assessments. Many of the authors are not only scholars of history, but they also work intimately with
church reform in their own everyday professional and faith lives.”
(2008) Christianson, Gerald, Thomas M. Izbiski, and Christopher Bellitto, eds., The Church, the
Councils, and Reform: the Legacy of the Fifteenth Century (Washington, DC: The
Catholic University of America Press, 2008). “The Church, the Councils, and Reform brings

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together leading authorities in the field of church history to reflect on the importance of the late medieval
councils. This is the first book in English to consider the lasting significance of the period from Constance
to Trent (1414-1563) when several councils met to heal the Great Schism (1378) and reform the church.”
(1987) Alberigo, Giusseppe , Jean-Pierre Jossua, and Joseph A. Komonchak, eds., The
Reception of Vatican II, trans. Matthew J. O’Connell (Washington, DC: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1987).

Other Publications
(2017) Lamb, Matthew L. and Matthew Levering, eds., The Reception of Vatican II (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2017). “The Reception of Vatican II looks at the sixteen conciliar
documents through the lens of those battles. Paying close attention to reforms and new developments, the
essays in this volume show how the Council has been received and interpreted over the course of the more
than fifty years since it concluded. The contributors to this volume represent various schools of thought but
are united by a commitment to restoring the view that Vatican II should be interpreted and implemented in
line with Church Tradition. The central problem facing Catholic theology today, these essays argue, is a
misreading of the Council that posits a sharp break with previous Church teaching. In order to combat this
reductive way of interpreting the Council, these essays provide a thorough, instructive overview of the
debates it inspired.”
(2015) Faggioli, Massimo, A Council for the Global Church Receiving Vatican II in History
(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015). One in a long line of books on the reception of Vatican
II as a hermeneutical key for understanding Vatican II. F. believes that 1) the conciliar debate and the
“constitutional” value are helpful to see the “trajectories” of VII; 2) yet, texts do not sufficiently
comprehend ecclesiological turn; 3) reform in the post-conciliar Church is a key for interpreting the
Council; and 4) reception indicates a turn from a “Europe-centered,” “inward-oriented” Catholicism to the
global Catholicism.
(2015) Faggioli, Massimo, Pope Francis: Tradition in Transition (New York / Mahwah, NJ:
Paulist Press, 2015). “This is not a biography of Pope Francis, nor a complete chronicle of the early
months of his pontificate. It is, rather, an attempt to capture some special moments and some key issues at
the heart of the transition from Pope Benedict XVI to Francis, with the intuition that this unexpected
transition-how it is carried out, and what it has given rise to-reveals something which is not only a special
‘Catholic event,’ but also a particular historical moment in a tradition in flux: a tradition that touches the
contemporary world far beyond the borders of Rome and Roman Catholicism.”
(2015) Lamberigts, M., et al., eds., 50 Years after the Vatican II Council. Theologians from all
over the world deliberate (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2015).
(2015) Theobald, Christoph, Le concile Vatican II : quel avenir? (Paris: Cerf, 2015).
(2014) Clifford, Catherine E., Decoding Vatican II: Interpretation and Ongoing Reception (New
York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2014). Clifford hopes “to help readers ‘decode’ some of the
competing claims of our fragmented context and to propose a broader framework within which to consider
the significance of Vatican II, a framework that can be distilled from a careful study of the history of the
council and the documents it produced.”
(2012) Faggioli, Massimo, Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (New York / Mahwah, NJ:
Paulist Press, 2012). Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning “offers comprehensive presentation of the
theological and historiographical debate about Council Vatican II. The attempt to go beyond “the clash of
interpretations”—Vatican II as a rupture in the history of Catholicism on one side, the need to read Vatican
II in continuity with the tradition on the other—is necessary indeed because the ongoing debate about
Vatican II is largely misrepresented by the use of “clashing interpretations” as a tool for understanding the
role of the council in present-day Catholicism.”
(2012) Flynn, Gabriel and Paul D. Murray, eds., Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in
Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Ressourcement “provides both a historical and a theological analysis of the achievements of the renowned
generation of theologians whose influence pervaded French theology and society in the period 1930 to
1960, and beyond. It considers how the principal exponents of ressourcement, leading Dominicans and

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Jesuits of the faculties of Le Saulchoir (Paris) and Lyon-Fourviere, inspired a renaissance in twentieth-
century Catholic theology and initiated a movement for renewal that contributed to the reforms of the
Second Vatican Council. The book assesses the origins and historical development of the biblical, liturgical,
and patristic ressourcement in France, Germany, and Belgium, and offers fresh insights into the thought of
the movement’s leading scholars. It analyses the fierce controversies that erupted within the Jesuit and
Dominican orders and between leading ressourcement theologians and the Vatican. The volume also
contributes to the elucidation of the complex question of terminology, the interpretation of which still
engenders controversy in discussions of ressourcement and nouvelle theologie. It concludes with reflections
on how the most important movement in twentieth-century Roman Catholic theology continues to impact
on contemporary society and on Catholic and Protestant theological enquiry in the new millennium.”
(2012) Gaillardetz, Richard, Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II
(Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2012). “Keys to the Council identifies twenty key
conciliar passages, central texts that help us appreciate the Vision of the council fathers. Each chapter
places the given passage in its larger historical context, explores its fundamental meaning and significance,
and finally considers its larger significance for the life of the church today. Chapters include exploration
of Sacrosanctum Concilium’s demand for full, conscious, and active participation in the liturgy; Lumen
Gentium’s eucharistic ecclesiology; Gaudium et Spes’s vision of marriage as an intimate partnership of life
and love; Nostra Aetate’s approach to non-Christian religions; and more.”
(2012) Heft, James L., After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012). “Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years
ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and
finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions
vary, sometimes sharply, about the implications of Vatican II. This volume explores the major flashpoints.”
(2012) Scatena, Silvia, et al., eds., Vatican II Concilium 2012/3 (London: SCM Press, 2012).
Vatican II offers a series of articles on the historical significance of the Council relative to particular,
contemporary concerns, e.g., the “signs of the times,” the laity, the option for the poor, reception of the
Council by third world countries, etc.
(2010) Marchetto, Agostino, The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council: A Counterpoint for the
History of the Council, trans. Kenneth D. Whitehead (Scranton, PA: University of
Scranton Press, 2010). “This important study by Archbishop Agostino Marchetto makes a significant
contribution to the debate that surrounds the interpretation of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
Archbishop Marchetto critiques the Bologna School, which, he suggests, presents the Council as a kind of
“Copernican revolution,” a transformation to “another Catholicism.” Instead Marchetto invites readers to
reconsider the Council directly, through its official documents, commentaries, and histories. Marchetto’s
volume will be a useful resource for graduate students, seminarians, and scholars interested in the
theological significance of Vatican II.”
(2010) Schultenover, David, 50 Years On: Probing the Riches of Vatican II (Collegeville, MN:
The Liturgical Press, 2010). “The articles gathered here appeared originally in a series solicited by
and published in Theological Studies (September 2012 to March 2014). The purpose of the series was and
remains threefold: • To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council • To help
readers more fully appreciate its significance not only for the Catholic Church itself but also for the entire
world whom the Church encounters in proclamation and reception of ongoing revelation • In their present
form, to help readers worldwide engage both the conciliar documents themselves and scholarly reflections
on them, all with a view to appropriating the reform envisioned by Pope John XXIII.”
(2009) Theobald, Christoph, La réception du concilie Vatican, Vol. I, Accéder à la source (Paris:
Cerf, 2009).
(2009) Wicks, Jared, Doing Theology (New York : Paulist Press, 2009). “Shows how major Christian
thinkers (Irenaeus, Origen, Luther, and others) pursued theological understanding and then reviews the
directions given by Vatican Council II for working out a beneficial and well-grounded Christian theology.”
(2008) Lamb, Matthew L. and Matthew Levering, eds., Vatican II Renewal within Tradition
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). “In Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition, an
international team of theologians offers a different reading of the documents from Vatican II. The Council
was indeed putting forth a vision for the future of the Church, but that vision was grounded in two

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millennia of tradition. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that Vatican II’s documents are a
development from an established antecedent in the Roman Catholic Church. Each chapter contextualizes
Vatican II teachings within that rich tradition. The resulting book is an indispensable and accessible
companion to the Council’s developments, one that focuses on theology and transcends the mass-media
storyline of ‘liberal’ versus ‘conservative.’”
(2008) O’Malley, John, What Happened at Vatican II? (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2008). “What Happened at Vatican II captures the drama of the council,
depicting the colorful characters involved and their clashes with one another. The book also offers a new
set of interpretive categories for understanding the council’s dynamics―categories that move beyond the
tired “progressive” and “conservative” labels. As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the calling of the
council, this work reveals in a new way the spirit of Vatican II. A reliable, even-handed introduction to the
council, the book is a critical resource for understanding the Catholic church today, including the
pontificate of Benedict XVI.”
(2007) O’Malley, John, Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? (New York: Bloomsbury T & T
Clark, 2007). “Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? is clearly on the side of those who think something
unprecedented happened, that a genie was let out of the bottle that will never be stuffed back. Comprised
mainly of a collection of articles, mostly but not all from Theological Studies, that are without qualification
some of the best analysis of the council ever written, this book is a long overdue look at one of the most
controversial and revolutionary chapters in the history of the Catholic Church.”
(2006) Alberigo, Giuseppe and Joseph A. Komonchak, eds., History of Vatican II, 5 vols.
Matthew J. O’Connell, trans. (Maryknoll, NY : Orbis ; Leuven : Peeters, 1995-2005).
(2006) Buhlman, Raymond and Frederick Parrella, eds., From Trent to Vatican II: Historical
and Theological Investigations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). “The second
Vatican Council was convened by Pope John XXIII between 1962 and 1965. It marked a fundamental shift
toward the modern Church and its far-reaching innovations replaced or radically changed many of the
practices, rules, and attitudes that had dominated Catholic life and culture since the Council of Trent in the
sixteenth century. In this book a distinguished team of historians and theologians offers an impartial
investigation of the relationship between Vatican II and Trent by examining such issues as Eucharistic
theology, liturgical change, clerical reform, the laity, the role of women, marriage, confession, devotion to
Mary, and interfaith understanding. As the first book to present such a comprehensive study of the
connection between the two great Councils, this is an invaluable resource for students, theologians, and
church historians, as well as for bishops, clergy, and religious educators.”
(2006) Gaillardetz, Richard, The Church in the Making : Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus,
Orientalium Ecclesiarum (New York : Paulist Press, 2006). “The Church in the Making
explores the teaching of three documents from the Second Vatican Council on the nature of the church,
while also considering how that teaching has been implemented in the last four decades.”
(2006) Rigali, Justin, Reliving Vatican II : It’s all about Jesus Christ (Chicago: Liturgy Training
Publications, 2006).
(2006) Whitehead, Kenneth D., ed., The Renewed Church: The Second Vatican Council’s
Enduring Teaching about the Church (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, 2006). “Two of the
Council’s sixteen documents--the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, and the Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes--explain the Church’s self-
understanding of what she is and what she does better than has ever been done in any of the Church’s
official documents in the course of her long history. The diversity inherent in the Church as Catholic, or
universal, is also covered in the book in a discussion of the Council’s Decree on the Catholic Eastern
Churches, Orientalium Ecclesiarum. Such currently widely discussed and debated contemporary issues as
the primacy of the pope, the collegiality of the bishops, the universal call to holiness, the place of the
Blessed Virgin Mary in the economy of salvation, the relations of the Church and Catholics with other
Christians and with the modern world, and the dignity of the human person―all of these issues, and how
they apply today in the life of the Church, go back to Vatican II and to the Council’s great documents on
the Church, which are more relevant than ever today with the passage of time.”
(2004) Rush, Ormond, Still Interpreting Vatican II: Some Hermeneutical Principles (New York/
Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2004). Rush “proposes that a comprehensive interpretation of Vatican II

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requires that the interpreter not only attempt a reconstruction of the “spirit” of the council emerging during
the conciliar debates, but also take into account the various linguistic dimensions of the “letter” of the
documents. Attention to genre, structure, rhetoric, intratextuality and intertextuality are all significant in
reconstructing the “letter” of the council. In addition, he states that reconstruction of the “spirit” and “letter”
must be supplemented by attention to another factor: the post-conciliar reception of the council from
different contexts throughout the world over the last forty years. All three of these phases of interpretation
must be kept in correlation. The book ends with a proposal for a reception pneumatology that calls for
greater recognition of the work of reception as the work of the Holy Spirit of the council.”
(1996) Martelet, Gustave, Les idées maîtresses de Vatican II. Introduction à l’esprit du Concile
(Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1966).
(1986) Stacpoole, Alberic, ed., Vatican II Revisited by Those Who Were There (Minneapolis,
MN: Winston Press, 1986). This work comprises an eclectic choice of articles about Vatican II
mostly of an historical nature, some by people who were there.
(1985) Kobler, John Francis., Vatican II and Phenomenology. Reflections on the Life-World of
the Church (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985).
(1982) Camadini, Giuseppe, ed., “Ecclesiam Suam” première lettre encyclique de Paul VI.
Colloque international, Rome 24-26 octobre 1980 (Roma: Instituto Paulo VI / Brescia:
Studium Vita Nova, 1982).
(1979) Wojtyła, Karol, Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of Vatican II (San Francisco:
Harper and Row, 1979). This is a veritable theology of the renewal envisioned at Vatican II. It centers
on the proper formation of consciousness and attitudes for fostering renewal within the Church.
(1966) Ratzinger, Joseph, Theological Highlights of Vatican II (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist
Press, 2009, 1966). “Here is a significant book comprising Joseph Ratzinger’s report on the debates and
struggles that made up each of the four sessions of Vatican II (1962-65), along with theological
commentary by a noted scholar and professor.”

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