Research and Course Guides: Vatican II (1962-1965) : Reference Works

Electronic Resources

The library has a number of online resources covering the history of the early church.

New Catholic Encyclopedia [electronic resource]
A standard source for basic information on all aspects of the Council with survey articles on the Council itself, individual documents, and participants.

Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Use for quick look ups. Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Oxford Companions on a wide variety of topics. Brief entries and information about art, biology, business, classics, computing, environmental science, economics, history, language, law, literature, medicine, physical science, political science, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full-text encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Articles, journals, and books published by Wiley across a variety of disciplines.

Rediscovering Vatican II (Series)
Rediscovering Vatican II is an eight book series published by Paulist Press to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Vatican II.
Commentary on the documents of Vatican II. [General editor: Herbert Vorgrimler.
An English tranlation of the German original with contributions from major theologians who were involved in the Council including Yves Congar, Bernhard Häring, Josef Jungmann, Karl Rahner, and Josef Ratzinger. Still considered by most to be the standard commentary on the Council documents.

Concilium Vaticanum II : concordance, index, listes de frequence, tables comparatives / Philippe Delhaye, Michel Gueret, Paul Tombeur
A concordance citing the use of each Latin word in context from all the Council documents. Because this work was created by a computer, forms of the same word (e.g. libertas, libertate, libertatem) are listed separately.

Dictionary of the Council. Edited by J. Deretz and A. Nocent.
Slightly abridged" translation of Synopse des textes conciliaires