Michael Novak's eyewitness report on the second and pivotal session
of Vatican II in 1964 vividly inter weaves pageantry, politics, and
theology. An unusually well-informed lay intellectual, who had
earned a theological degree just before the Council, Novak
applauded the purposes of Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul
VI-"to throw open the windows of the church." In this report, he
coined the classic description of the foes of the reforms at
Vatican II as the party of "nonhistorical orthodoxy," emphasizing
the eternal and unchanging, neglecting history and contingency. The
author recounts many moments of high drama-Pope Paul VI's opening
speech, the vote on the collegiality of bishops, the plea of
Cardinal Bea on behalf of the chapter on Jews, and Bishop De
Smedt's defense of religious freedom. His colorful chapter on the
American bishops in 1964 serves as a fascinating benchmark, as do
his many insights into the new role of the laity. His final chapter
is a moving tribute to the Open Church engaging the contemporary
world, and his new introduction brings this report up to date. This
work will be of compelling interest to those interested in the
post-conciliar fall of Communism, under the great John Paul II-who
took his name from his two predecessors at Vatican II. The winner
of the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
(1994), Michael Novak is a theologian, author, and former U.S.
ambassador. He currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in
Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in
Washington, D.C. where he is director of social and political
studies. His writings have appeared in every major Western
language, and in Chinese, Bengali, Korean, and Japanese. Also
available from Transaction are his Catholic Social Thought and
Liberal Institutions, The Experience of Nothingness, The Guns of
Lattimer, Unmeltable Ethnics, Belief and Unbelief, and Choosing
Presidents.
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