C ommentators on the Second Vatican Council describe Yves Congar, O.P., as one of the most important theologians at the council. This is no small compliment, for it aligns him with Karl Rahner, S.J., Henri de Lubac, S.J., Joseph Ratzinger and John Courtney Murray, S.J., as well as other luminaries of that remarkable generation. But that assessment is too modest. When account is taken of Congar’s writings before the council and of his influence on so many of the final documents, he must be ranked, in my opinion, as the council’s single most important theologian.
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