Catholicism Contending with Modernity: Roman Catholic Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Historical Context

by Edited by Darrell Jodock

• ISBN13: 9780521175029
• ISBN10: 052117502X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 2000 book is a case study in the ongoing struggle of Christianity to define its relationship to modernity, examining representative Roman Catholic Modernists and anti-Modernists, exploring their relationship to their own historical context. Its aim is to counteract the tendency to lift the proposals made by the Modernists out of their setting and define them as a coherent, timeless philosophical/theological outlook, which should be avoided. The book seeks to correct the proclivity of some contemporary proponents of Modernist ideas to de-contextualize those ideas and recommend their endorsement without a critical reconsideration of historical changes. It sketches the nineteenth-century background of the Modernist crisis, identifying the problems that the church was facing at the beginning of the twentieth century; and offers a fresh perspective on the Modernist crisis, a perspective arising from the pioneering work undertaken by the Roman Catholic Modernism Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Note on the text

the modernist crisis

the modernists and the anti-modernists

The Late Nineteenth-Century Setting of Modernism and Anti-Modernism

Vatican foreign policy and the origins of modernism

Catholic anti-modernism: the ecclesial setting

Theological and philosophical modernism

Maurice Blondel and Alfred Loisy In France

Seeking transcendence in the modern world

Blondel's Action and the problem of the university

The politics of Loisy's modernist theology

Innovation and biblical interpretation

Friedrich von Hügel and Maude Petre in England

The modernist as mystic

English Catholicism and modernism

Social Modernism and Anti-Modernism in France

Social modernism: the case of the Semaines Sociales

Anti-modernism and the elective affinities between politics and philosophy

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