• Religion in Irish education : recent trends in government policy / Kevin Williams
• New forms of cultural unbelief / Michael Paul Gallagher
• The place of theology and religion in higher education / Michael Drumm
• First discussion / chaired by Geraldine Smyth
• The future of religion at post-primary level / Ann Walsh
• Whither the fourth R? : a perspective on the future of religion in the primary school / Kieran Griffin
• Subjects or architects of culture? : religious education and children's experience / Tom Larkin
• Second discussion / chaired by Anne Looney --Symposium on the theme / chaired by Joseph Dunne
• Afterword : the expanding horizons of Catholic education / Dermot A. Lane.

• Contents: Padraic Conway: Ireland's Ambivalent Relationship with the Second Vatican Council - Patrick Masterson: Remembering Vatican II - Dermot A. Lane: Keeping the Memory Alive: Vatican II as an Enduring Legacy for Reform of the Church - Gabriel Flynn: Ressourcement and Vatican II: Reform and Renewal - Sean Freyne: Dei Verbum: The Bible in the Post-Conciliar Church - Jim Corkery: The Reception of Vatican II in Ireland over Fifty Years - Jacinta Prunty: Reception of the Call of Vatican II for Renewal of Religious Life: Case Study of the Irish Federation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity - Ethna Regan: Vatican II and Human Rights: From Religious Freedom to Frontline Advocacy - Linda Hogan: Catholic Theological Ethics since Vatican II - Andrew Pierce: The Ecumenical Church of Vatican II - Gerard O'Hanlon: Vatican II as a Resource for the Renewal of the Church in Ireland in the Twenty-First Century - Gabriel Daly: The Church: Semper Reformanda - Declan Marmion: The Influence of Karl Rahner at Vatican II - Michael Drumm: The Extremely Important Issue of Education - Joseph O'Leary: The Future of Collegiality - Fainche Ryan: Vatican II and the Question of Ministry - Enda McDonagh: A New Style of Church and Theology After Vatican II - Patrick Hannon: Church and State in Ireland: Perspectives of Vatican II.
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This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965. With a selection of essays by distinguished Irish theologians, this book offers an objective assessment of the historical reception and pastoral implementation of Vatican II in Ireland with the benefit of half a century's hindsight. The authors discuss from a variety of different perspectives the theological significance of the Council for the self-understanding and reform of the Catholic church, both in the past and for the future.
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