Unfinished Journey: The Church 40 Years After Vatican 2

Introduction by Austen Ivereigh
About the contributors
Part I Taking stock
1 The Second Vatican Council: of happy memory - and hope? Nicholas Lash
2 The "Open Church" 40 years later: a reckoning Michael Novak
3 Tradition and reaction: historical resources for a contemporary renewal Eamon Duffy

Part II The Unfinished Journey
4 On Having the Courage of One's Convictions Hans Kueng
5 Images of the Church: from "perfect society" to "God's people on pilgrimage" Rembert Weakland
6 Wanted: the other half of the Church Joan Chittister
7 Augustine, Aquinas or the Gospel sine glossa? Divisions over Gaudium et spes Joseph Komonchak
8 Power and powerlessness in the Church: the chance for renewal Timothy Radcliffe
9 Religious freedom: the limits of progress Michael Walsh
10 Where does Catholic social teaching go from here? Clifford Longley
11 The Scientific Search for the Soul John Cornwell
12 The place of philosophy in the life of the Church: a time for renewal John Haldane
13 Captivated ambivalence: how the Church copes (or not) with the media Lavinia Byrne
14 The Church and the media : beyond Inter mirifica Alain Woodrow

Part III Signposts from beyond
15 A lead from Asia Tom C. Fox
16 How base communities started: Paraguay's Christian Agrarian Leagues Margaret Hebblethwaite
17 Truth beyond division: Eastern meditation and Western Christianity Shirley de Boulay
18 Oscar Romero, bishop-martyr and model of Church Julian Filochowski

Part IV Postscript
19 A tribute to John Wilkins Hugo Young