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