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| Introduction | |
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| Jesus' Community of the Unexpected, Circa AD 28-30 | |
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| Unfolding Revelations of a Hidden Presence | |
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| Human Openness to a Quiet Invitation | |
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| Jesus Came Eating and Drinking | |
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| Inviting and Welcoming the Unexpected | |
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| God's Presence in a Temple Not Made by Human Hands | |
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| Shapes of Church: Varied Interpretations of Jesus | |
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| Ultimate Trust in the Quiet Power of Love | |
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| A Jesus Understood in Retrospect | |
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| Did Jesus Foresee the Church in His Future? | |
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| Continuing the Way of Jesus Who Came to Serve | |
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| Communities Facing the Future with Creative Fidelity | |
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| From Jesus to Church: The Nuances of Development | |
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| Church as Ongoing Sacrament Flowing from Jesus | |
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| Shaping the Early Church: Human Decisions in the Spirit, Circa AD 30-110 | |
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| A Community of New Possibility | |
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| EKKLESIA: The Assembly of God | |
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| A Network of Grassroots Assemblies | |
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| Unfolding Realization of Universal Mission | |
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| Communion as Shared Reception: A Foundation of Early Church Order | |
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| A Cosmic Body of Christ: Corporate Historical Sacrament | |
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| The Pluriformity of Early Leadership Patterns | |
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| Service for Unity, Not Power | |
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| Transitional Leadership for Another Generation | |
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| Mono-Episcopacy: The Personification of Ecclesial Unity | |
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| The Jesus Movement as a Communion of Churches, AD 110-600 | |
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| One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic "Episcopal" Church | |
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| Synods and Councils as Expressions of Ecclesial Communion | |
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| The Church of Rome as the Center of Unity | |
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| The Solidification of Papal Claims | |
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| A Church of Visible Sacraments and Invisible Holiness | |
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| Toward a Stratified, Hierarchical Church | |
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| Toward a Church of Stratified, Hierarchical Holiness | |
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| "Neither Slave Nor Free..."-Unfinished Trajectories from Jesus | |
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| Confidence Amid the Passing of an Era | |
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| A Changing Church: Struggling with Power, AD 600-1400 | |
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| Ecclesial Power as an Unintended Consequence of Service | |
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| A Changing Experience of Church "From Below" | |
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| Patterns of Popular Piety | |
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| A Diminishing Pastoral Role for Bishops | |
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| The Growth of Papal Administrative Power | |
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| The Pinnacle of Papal Power | |
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| The Persistence of Evangelical Ideals | |
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| The Birth of Ecclesiology: Theology Responding to Crises, AD 1400-1900 | |
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| From Body of Christ to Mystical Body: Changing Ideas of Church | |
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| Debates about Papal Power and the Authority of Councils | |
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| Defending the Papacy: Torquemada's Summa de Ecclesia | |
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| The Protestant Reformation: A Church Divided | |
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| The Ecclesiological Climate from the Council of Trent to Vatican I | |
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| Vatican I: An Authoritative Petrine Ministry | |
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| The Conditions of Papal Infallibility | |
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| Openness to "A Desire of New Things"-Rerum Novarum | |
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| Vatican II: Toward "A New Order of Things," 1900- | |
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| Vatican II and Aggiornamento: Updating by Creative Retrieval | |
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| Back to the Future: Church as Worshiping Community | |
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| The Birth Pains of Vatican II's Theology of Church | |
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| Church as Sacrament of Unity | |
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| Church as the Priestly People of God | |
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| Church as a Communion of Churches: A Unity in Diversity | |
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| Toward Retrieving a Collegial Leadership of Pope and Bishops | |
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| The Ministries of Teaching, Sanctifying, and Leading | |
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| The Mission of the Nonordained and Nonvowed Faithful | |
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| The Eschatological Dimension of the Church | |
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| Themes Reprised in a Chorus of Documents | |
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| A Wider Horizon for the Church's Self-Understanding | |
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| The Reception of Vatican II's Theology of Church | |
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| The Unfinished Task of Theological Synthesis | |
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| Restoring a Future to a World Church | |
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| A "This-Worldly" Eschatology | |
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| Gaudium et spes | |
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| Foundations for a "This-Worldly" Eschatology | |
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| From Unmoved Mover to the Death of God | |
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| An Eschatological Catholicity | |
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| Looking Ahead | |
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| Epilogue: A Future for Women in the Church? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |
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| Index of Selected Topics | |