".The title of the book, from Father John O'Malley's article, indicates this preference for "experience" over content. He labours the obvious point that the language of Vatican ll indicates a new openness towards the non-Catholic and secular worlds Stephen Schlosser.accounts for the change by placing it in the context of the 1960s when the threat of a nuclear disaster had produced world-wide feeling of angst.Yes, of course, but we hardly need a book to inform us of notions that over years have become threadbare with use. Everyone knows that the sixties were tumultuous, that the last forty years have been difficult.What we look for in these intelligent and learned Catholics is beyond linguistics and sociology; we want theology.The tepid conclusion of the book ”"the Church is now faced with the need to bring about change in itself.

while seeking to put the breaks [sic] on the pace of change in the world" (p.176) ”should worry these learned gentlemen, given what the Lord said to the lukewarm Christians in Laodicea (Rev 3:16)." --Father Daniel Callam, C.S.B., Catholic Insight Magazine , January 2009.