The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner's Franciscan Development of Vatican II on the Themes of the Holy Spirit Mary and the Church--Festschrift

The Spirit and the Church celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Damian Fehlner OFM Conv. who for the past six decades has carried the torch of the Franciscan theological and philosophical vision in the fields of ecclesiology pneumatology Mariology and anthropology. Articles by colleagues former students and associates fall into three broad categories corresponding with several of the main areas in which Fehlner has made a longstanding scholarly contribution: the Churchs Magisterium and development of doctrine anthropologycomma and creation; the relation between Mariology pneumatology and ecclesiology; and scholarly seeds planted by Fehlner now being cultivated and harvested by younger scholars. All of the essays in this volume engage with Fehlner evaluate his contributions and build upon and expand in new directions the contributions of our honoree. The essays in this volume manifest the contemporary relevance of Fehlners Franciscan vision in terms of his invitation to renew the theology of the Church in a Marian mode in the light of Vatican II.