M. Y. Ciftci is Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He was previously Etienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Part One - What Did the Council Teach and What's Wrong with It?.- Chapter One: Why Study Vatican II on Church-State Relations?.- Chapter Two: Survey of Conciliar Documents on Ecclesiology and the Lay Apostolate in Politics.- chapter Three: Defining the Debate in Political Theology.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Two ways of classifying political theology to be rejected.- 3.3 A qualified acceptance of an alternative classification.- Chapter Four: Reading DH through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 'Not Late Enough: The Divided Mind of Dignitatis Humanae Personae'.- 4.3 Distinguishing the arguments that are distinctive to ecclesial ethics.- 4.4 First argument: DH's distinctions between nature-grace, reason-revelation.- 4.5 Second argument: distinction between religion and politics.- Chapter Five: Reading LG, AA, and GS through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The structure of Cavanaugh's argument.- 5.3 The problematic ecclesiology underlying Catholic Action.- 5.4 The elusive presence of Vatican II in Cavanaugh's thought.- 5.5 The critique of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.- 5.6 The critique of the Decree on the Lay Apostolate.- 5.7 The critique of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.- 5.8 Summary of critique.- Chapter Six: A Critique of Hauerwas and Cavanaugh.- 6.1 Why Hauerwas and Cavanaugh are not sectarians.- 6.2 The modern state as an irredeemable foe.- 6.3 The church as a contrast society.- 6.4 Conclusion.- Part Two - How Can the Church's Teaching be Corrected?.- Chapter Seven: Methodological Introduction.- Chapter Eight: Powers and Principalities in the New Testament.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Scholarship on the Powers.- 8.3 The Powers: Created, fallen, defeated.- 8.4 Political authority as one of the Powers.- 8.5 Oliver O'Donovan on the Powers and political authority.- 8.6 Conclusion.- Chapter Nine: Deliverance from the Powers in the church.- 9.1 The sacramental shape of the church.- 9.2 Baptism.- 9.3 Eucharist.- 9.4 Participating in the threefold office: Prophet, Priest, King.- 9.5 Ordained ministry.- Chapter Ten: Learning from the Ambiguous Legacy of Christendom.- 10.1 Bearing witness before the Powers.- 10.2 Mission leading to martyrdom or mutual service.- 10.3 From Two Cities to Two Swords.- 10.4 The Gospel's impact on political authorities.- Chapter Eleven - Conclusion.- Bibliography.