Dr. Shaun Blanchard is a Senior Research Fellow at National Institute for Newman Studies, and Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is the author of several books in the area of theological history, including a Global Anthology of the Catholic Enlightenment on CUA Press which he co-edited with Dr. Ulrich Lehner, and our topic today, a volume of Oxford’s “Very Short Introduction” series on Vatican II which he coauthored with Dr. Steven Bullivant.