For For specialists in the theology of the episcopate and the background of Vatican II's teaching on bishops; not for general readers.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
0 of 5not for the general reader
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
5 of 5very hard
A large symposium on bishops and the universal Church, edited for the Council's debate on the episcopate.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical4 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A multi-author volume of more than 800 pages, published by Éditions du Cerf in 1962 in the Unam Sanctam series, which Congar edited with Bernard-Dominique Dupuy. Its studies concern the episcopate and its relation to the universal Church, the question Vatican I had left open and Vatican II took up.
