The Documents of the Second Vatican Council xiIntroduction: Reimagining Vatican II 1Part I Why Vatican II was Necessary1 Crisis? What Crisis? 112 Modernity as Ideology 183 The New Thirty Years War 224 The End of Christendom 315 The Renewal of the Catholic Mind 366 What Kind of Church? 637 What Kind of Council? To What Ends? 72Part II What Vatican II Taught8 The Council's Distinctive Features 859 John XXIII's Original Intention 9710 The Word of God Breaks Through the Silence 112The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation11 Sacrament of Authentic Human Community 129The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church12 To Worship the One Worthy of Worship 147The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy13 Design for a Christocentric Humanism 161The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World14 Truth, Liberty, and the Limits of State Power 177The Declaration on Religious Freedom15 Witnesses and Missionaries 196The Council's Teaching on States of Life in the Church16 From Plurality to Pluralism 223The Council's Teaching on the Eastern Catholic Churches, On Ecumenism, And On Non-Christian ReligionsPart III The Keys to Vatican II17 Jacques Maritain's Lament 23918 The Council Without Keys 24319 Keys to the Council: John Paul II 25320 Keys to the Council: Benedict XVI 27121 The Master Key 28422 Christ at the Center 290Acknowledgments 297Notes 301Index 341