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Article: What really happened at Vatican II.('What Happened at Vatican II', 'Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition')(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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What Happened at Vatican II
by John W. O'Malley
Harvard University Press, 372 pages, $29.95
Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition
edited by Matthew Lamb and Matthew Levering
Oxford University Press, 462 pages, $29.95
When asked what he thought about the French Revolution, Zhou Enlai, Chinas urbane premier under Chairman Mao, is reported to have replied, "It is too early to say." Such reticence has been in short supply when it comes to explaining the significance of the Second Vatican Council. Yet hundreds of books and tens of thousands of articles have not yet arrived at a settled consensus. The two books under review ...