Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ: a model theologian, 1918-2008

Foreword / Joseph A. O'Hare, SJ

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1. Dulles Family Heritage

2. Home and Education, 1920-1940

Early Education

Choate

Harvard

Princeps Concordiae

3. Becoming a Catholic, 1937-1941

Personal Awakening and Discovery

Doubts and Decision

St. Benedict Center

4. The Navy Years, 1941-1946

Modern War and Christian Conscience

Naval Intelligence and Excursions

Navy Life, Letters, Literature, and Travel

Return to St. Benedict Center

5. Becoming a Jesuit, 1946-1958

Novitiate

Woodstock College Philosophy

Regency at Fordham University

Woodstock College Theology

Tertianship in Münster, Germany

6. From the Gregorian to Woodstock, 1958-1965

Gregorian University and Pope John XXIII

Dissertation

Woodstock College in Changing Times

Fundamental Theology at Woodstock

Ecumenism

Rockhurst Reform of Theological Education

7. From Vatican II to the Closing of Woodstock, 1966-1974

Implementing Rockhurst

Moving Woodstock to New York City

Closing Woodstock

8. Models Theology for Turbulent Times, 1966-1974

Vatican II and Dulles

Revelation and Dogma

Apologetics

Ecclesiological Issues and Models of the Church

Ecclesiology

Humanae vitae

The Prophetic and Charismatic in the Church

Küng and the Church

Reform of Church Structures

Models of the Church

Ecumenism

Dulles and His Critics

Woodstock Theological Center

9. A Chastened Progressivism, 1974-1988

Woodstock Theological Center

Hartford Appeal

Revisionist Theologians Critiqued

Human Sexuality

Bicentennial Call to Action

10. The Moderate Middle in Theology, 1974-1988

Faith and Revelation

Apologetics

Ecclesiological Issues

Church as Community of Disciples

The Papacy

Episcopacy and Collegiality

Prophetic and Charismatic Offices

Theologians and the Magisterium

Theological Dissent

11. The Ecumenist, 1971-1996

Structure of Lutheran/Catholic Dialogue

Papal Primacy and the Universal Church

Teaching Authority and Infallibility

Justification

One Mediator, the Saints and Mary

Scripture and Tradition

Lutheran/Catholic Coordinating Committee

12. Theology for a Postcritical Age, 1988-2000

Fordham and the McGinley Chair

Neuhaus, Dulles, and the New Converts

Theological Issues and Method in a Postcritical Age

Locations of Theology

International Theological Community

13. Evangelization and Faith, 1988-2008

Evangelization

Ecumenism

Church, Contemporary Culture, and Politics

Faith

14. Interpreting Vatican II and the Church, 1988-2008

Models in Theology

Interpreting Vatican II

Ecclesiological Issues

The Papacy

The Universal and the Local Church

The Priesthood

Ordination of Women

15. The Cardinal, 2001-2008

Becoming a Cardinal

Death Penalty Controversy

Clerical Sexual Abuse

Death of John Paul II and Election of Benedict XVI

Newman

Doctrine, Development, Reversals, and Reform

Ecclesiological Issues

Church and the Eucharist

The Magisterium

Mary and the Church

Interreligious Dialogues

An Evangelical Catholic Theologian

16. The Last Years

Notes

Chronological Outline

Essay on the Sources

Index