Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Kung, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology. Published five times a year, each issue reflects a deep knowledge and scholarship presented in a highly readable style, and each issue offers a wide variety of viewpoints from leading thinkers from all over the world.

Towards a theological interpretation of modernity / Claude Geffre and Jean-Pierre Jossua -- The historical destiny of modernity -- Modernity: A sociological perspective / Gregory Baum -- Catholicism and modernity: A process of mutual exclusion / Emile Poulat -- The philosophical critique of modernity / Helmut Peukert -- Attempts at reconciling modernity and religion in Catholic and Protestant theology / Christoph Theobald -- Postmodernity: its seductions-and a critique -- The end of enlightenment: Post-modern or post-secular? / John Milbank -- Between praxis and theory: theology in a crisis over orientation / Werner Jeanrond -- The reciprocal exclusiveness of modernity and religion among contemporary thinkers: Jurgen Habermas and Marcel Gauchet / Anne Fortin-Melkevik -- The crisis of modernity and the Church's attitudes -- What is Christian about Europe? / Rudolf von Thadden -- The debate about modernity in the North Atlantic world and the Third World / Juan Carlos Scannone -- The attitude of the Church to the modern world at and after Vatican II / Giovanni Turbanti.