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In Catholic Modernism: Tyrrell, Loisy, and the Ongoing Challenge to Dogmatic Christianity, editors Matthew Levering and Jeffrey L. Morrow bring together a collection of original studies that investigate the Catholic Modernist crisis within its larger historical and theological context. A key throughline concerns the connection of Modernism and religious liberalism, which is characterized by the insistence that Christian dogmas are merely human claims rooted in the exigencies of the Church rather than binding, divinely revealed truths about reality.
After an initial introduction that examines religious liberalism more generally, the volume first offers an overview of the Modernist crisis and its most important participants. It then proceeds with a series of more focused studies concerning Alfred Loisy's views of dogma, George Tyrrell's understanding of theology and divine revelation, and the presence of Loisy's ideas within contemporary treatments of tradition. Offered as an appendix is an English translation of selections from Loisy's Autour d'un petit livre, in which he addresses his aims in The Gospel and the Church and his views on the truth of Scripture, the divinity of Christ, and the origin and authority of dogma.
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MATTHEW LEVERING is the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology and the director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or editor of several dozen books, including Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation: The Mediation of the Gospel through the Church and Scripture, The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Thought, and Newman on Doctrinal Corruption.
JEFFREY L. MORROW is professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville and director of the St. Paul Studies Center at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. He has written widely on the Catholic Modernist crisis and the history of modern biblical scholarship and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft and Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies.
