Introduction
Part1: Definitions, Characteristics and Modern History of Theological Dissent
1. Theological Understandings of Dissent
2. Dissent in the Decades before the Second Vatican Council
3. Vatican II and the Spring Tide of Aggiornamento
Part2: Perspectives on Dissent in the Theology of Karl Rahner
4. Rahner’s Theology of the Church and the Magisterium
5. The Expansive Scope of Rahner’s Theological Enquiry
Part3: A Thematic Exploration of Contemporary Dissent
6. Dissent in Moral Theology: Humanae Vitae and the Charles Curran Case
7. Margaret Fraley: Love and Justice in Sexual Morality
8. Women, Patriarchy, and the Elizabeth Johnson Case
9. The Feminist Theology of Ordination
10. Recurring Themes in the Treatment of Dissent
Part4: Defending Orthodoxy and Disciplining Dissent
11. Pope Paul VI: From Reform to the Shaping of a Defensive Posture
12. Pope John Paul II: The Intensification of Discipline, and ‘Creeping Infallibilism’
13. Pope Benedict XVI: From Continuity to Crisis
14. Pope Francis: New Perspectives in a Pastoral Key
Part5: Reimagining Dissent: Possibilities for the Church of the 21st Century
15. The Synodal Process Begins
16. The 1st Synod Assembly and the Intersession
17. The 2nd Synod Assembly and its Aftermath
18. Ecclesial and Theological Trajectories of the Synodal Project
19. Synodality and Dissent: Conservative Resistance
20. New Possibilities: Dissent in a Synodal Church Conclusion. Index