| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Introduction: Vision and Versions | 1 |
| Common Ground, Contrasting Approaches | 3 |
| Dangers and Limitations | 5 |
| Carving Out a Historical Trajectory | 7 |
| 1 | What Is Communion Ecclesiology?: Images and Dimensions | 11 |
| A Web of Interwoven Relationships | 12 |
| Reductive Distortions, Corrective Images, and Dimensions | 14 |
| Dimensions and Models | 18 |
| Various Versions | 19 |
| Frameworks of Inclusion | 20 |
| 2 | Communion and Modernity: Johann Adam Mohler and Friedrich Schleiermacher | 23 |
| Four Points of Basic Agreement | 25 |
| Four Points with Some Overlap Yet Strong Differences | 28 |
| Apologetic Yet Ecumenical | 33 |
| The Later Mohler | 35 |
| Conclusion | 37 |
| 3 | Communion, Mystery, and History: Charles Journet and Yves Congar | 38 |
| Journet: Overturning the Neo-Scholastic Model | 40 |
| Congar: Mystery and History | 46 |
| Different Paths to the Council | 52 |
| Journet's Continuing Presence | 52 |
| Conclusion | 55 |
| 4 | Communion, Paradox, and Multi-Dimensionality: Henri de Lubac | 56 |
| Paradox and Mystery | 57 |
| Catholicity as Radical Inclusivity | 59 |
| Multi-Layered Relationships | 63 |
| Handing on Mohler's Legacy | 70 |
| Conclusion | 71 |
| 5 | Communion and the Council: Karl Rahner and John Paul II | 72 |
| Communion in the Documents | 73 |
| Rahner: Vatican II as the Self-Actualization of the Church as a World Church | 78 |
| John Paul II: Vatican II as a New Advent | 79 |
| John Paul II's Ranking of Important Developments of the Council | 80 |
| The Council and Preparations for Celebration | 81 |
| Conclusion | 83 |
| 6 | Communion and Theological Method: Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar | 85 |
| Rahner on Human Self-Transcendence and God | 87 |
| Rahner's Limitations | 88 |
| A Practical Ecclesiology | 89 |
| Rahner, de Lubac, and Communion Ecclesiology | 91 |
| Balthasar and the Way of Love | 94 |
| Can It All Fit Together? | 100 |
| 7 | Communion and the Common Good: Joseph Ratzinger and the Brothers Himes | 103 |
| Part I | Areas of Convergence | |
| Five Positions Taken by Both Ratzinger and the Himeses | 104 |
| Part II | Areas of Divergence | |
| Divergences Concerning the Characterization of Modern Thought | 111 |
| Divergence Concerning Communion Ecclesiology | 112 |
| Divergence Concerning the Common Good | 114 |
| Conclusion | 115 |
| 8 | Communion, Reform, and Liberation: Hans Kung, Leonardo Boff, and the CDF | 119 |
| Kung's Contribution to Communion Ecclesiology | 120 |
| Kung's Deficiencies | 121 |
| Boff's Contribution to Communion Ecclesiology | 124 |
| Boff on Mary and the Trinity | 126 |
| The CDF on "Some Aspects" of Communion Ecclesiology | 127 |
| The CDF Critique of Boff | 131 |
| Is the CDF Right about Boff? | 132 |
| Conclusion | 135 |
| 9 | Communion on the Borders: Elizabeth A. Johnson and Roberto Goizueta | 137 |
| Elizabeth A. Johnson's Catholic Feminist Approach | 138 |
| A Balthasarian Critique and Appreciation of Johnson | 139 |
| Roberto Goizueta's U.S. Hispanic Catholic Approach | 143 |
| Comparison with Liberation Theology | 143 |
| Some Parallels with Balthasar | 146 |
| Points of Comparison with the CDF's Statement | 148 |
| 10 | Communion and Ecumenism: Jean-Marie Tillard, John Zizioulas, and Miroslav Volf | 151 |
| The Patristic Vision according to Tillard | 152 |
| The Patristic Vision according to Zizioulas | 156 |
| Volf's Free Church Version of Communion Ecclesiology | 161 |
| Volf, the Episcopacy, and the Papacy | 163 |
| A Shared Vision of the Shared Vision? | 166 |
| 11 | Touchstones for the Vision: Beyond Selective Readings of Vatican II | 168 |
| The Cultural Context of U.S. Catholicism | 169 |
| Theological Diversity and Frameworks of Inclusion | 172 |
| Five Touchstones for the Vision | 175 |
| Communion Ecclesiology and Church Renewal | 178 |
| Bibliography | 181 |
| Index | 191 |
