Vatican II: A 50th Anniversary Review of Resources: Books

Use Subject Headings you know (these must be exact!)

If subject is a name, last name first.  Note exceptions for medieval geographical and honorific names.

For topical subject headings, elements must be in exact order.

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 LINK+ is a consortial group of over 40 academic and public libraries throughout California and Nevada. Using your MyLMU login name and password, you can request LINK+ books when LMU does not own a copy or when our book is checked out. Books are delivered to LMU at no charge and arrive within 3 to 4 business days. Read more...

Pope John XXIII

Pope Paul VI / Giovanni (Cardinal) Montini when V2 started

Hans Küng

Karl Rahner

Paul-Emile Leger

Leo-Joseph Suenens

Christopher Butler

John Courtney Murray*

Henri De Lubac

Dom Helder Camara

Pierre Benoit

Marie-Dominique Chenu

Yves Congar

Jean Danielou

Josef Frings

Edward Schillebeeckx

Godfrey Diekmann

Denis E Hurley

Bernard Haring

Gregory Baum

Augustin (Cardinal) Bea

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Maxim Hermaniuk

Remi J De Roo

Joseph Ratzinger

Alfredo (Cardinal) Ottaviani

Karol Wojtyla

Eugene Tisserant

*Note: our dear departed Fr. Herb Ryan, S.J., played an important part as assistant to Fr. Murray, spiritual advisor/peritus to Cardinal Spellman, and later as important pioneer in Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical dialogue.

A great American theologian looks at the faith history of the different centers of Christianity at the end of the Apostolic Era.  A good book to read when starting to think about Christian ecumenicism.

St. Benedict (terracotta, life sized)

by Antonio Begarelli

Abbey Church of St. Peter, Modena

photo: T. Amodeo 2010

Use LINUS, the Library's catalog to find books, E-books, videos and other materials that LMU owns or has on reserve. Use the dropdown to change the kind of search you want to do (see boxes at left and right for explanations of Keyword vs. Subject Heading searches).

ebrary is a collection of thousands of scholarly books in all disciplines, converted to electronic format.  Search by keyword, author or title to get a full, searchable text.  Register (for free) and you will be able to highlight passages, write notes, and save the marked text (and quick return access to the book and page) in your own personal online bookshelf.

When you search LINUS, ebrary and other electronic books will have the phrase "electronic resource" as part of the description.  So you can do a regular LINUS search for your topic, and get a mix of physical and electronic books.

If someone beats you to a particular book, remember that you can borrow a copy from LINK+ for a three-week loan!  Just click on the LINK+ image in the LINUS record, and see what copies are available.

Interior, Sant'Agostino, Modena

photo: T. Amodeo, 2010

Make a good guess and search by Keyword. You can search with a word or short phrase. You can narrow down too many results by combining your first word or phrase with another word or phrase, using AND as the connector. Or, you can expand the root of a word with an asterisk (*) to get all the variations of words beginning that way. For example:

Statue of L. A. Muratori

Modena