Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-century Catholic Theology (Hardback) Edited by Gabriel Flynn, Edited by Paul D. Murray

Full bibliographic data for Ressourcement

Title

Ressourcement

Subtitle

A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-century Catholic Theology

Authors and contributors

Edited by Gabriel Flynn, Edited by Paul D. Murray

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 608
Width: 163 mm
Height: 240 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight: 1,060 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade
Professional and scholarly

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780199552870
ISBN 10: 0199552878

Classifications

BISAC category code: REL010000
LC classification: BL
BISAC category code: REL102000
BIC time period qualifier: 3JJ
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T6.3

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Imprint name

Oxford University Press

Publication date

20 February 2012

Publication City/Country

Oxford/GB

Main description

Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology provides both a historical and a theological analysis of the achievements of the renowned generation of theologians whose influence pervaded French theology and society in the period 1930 to 1960, and beyond. It considers how the principal exponents of ressourcement, leading Dominicans and Jesuits of the faculties of Le Saulchoir (Paris) and Lyon-Fourviere, inspired a renaissance in twentieth-century Catholic theology and initiated a movement for renewal that contributed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The book assesses the origins and historical development of the biblical, liturgical, and patristic ressourcement in France, Germany, and Belgium, and offers fresh insights into the thought of the movement's leading scholars. It analyses the fierce controversies that erupted within the Jesuit and Dominican orders and between leading ressourcement theologians and the Vatican. The volume also contributes to the elucidation of the complex question of terminology, the interpretation of which still engenders controversy in discussions of ressourcement and nouvelle theologie. It concludes with reflections on how the most important movement in twentieth-century Roman Catholic theology continues to impact on contemporary society and on Catholic and Protestant theological enquiry in the new millennium.

Review quote

an indispensible introduction to the ressourcement movement. Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper With 34 contributors and 50 pages of bibliography, this book provides a thoroughly documented and masterly analysis, both historical and theological, of the wonderful if wholly unexpected renewal that Catholic theology underwent in the years 1930 to 1960 Fergus Kerr, The Tablet Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology represents the definitive academic 'handbook' for the English-speaking world, for a long time to come, on one of the most important and influential movements in 20th century Catholic theology. The remarkable breadth of topics treated and the impressive variety and consistently high quality of scholars involved bespeaks the significant ongoing impact of the ressourcement movement on contemporary Catholic as well as Protestant theology. This volume will need to belong to the working libraries of all theologians, Catholic or Protestant, who continue to reflect on how one of the most important theological movements of the 20th century continues to impact the theological inquiries and perspectives of the new millennium. Reinhard Hutter, Duke University Divinity School

Table of contents

Introduction: The twentieth-century renaissance in Catholic theology; I:THE RESSOURCEMENT MOVEMENT: HISTORY AND CONTEXT; 1. Jansenism - an early ressourcement movement?; 2. Nouvelle theologie: a return to Modernism?; 3. Gilson and the ressourcement; 4. Maurice Blondel and ressourcement; 5. A new Lyon School (1919-39)?; 6. Gagnebet's hidden ressourcement: a Dominican speculative theology from Toulouse; 7. The traditionalist in spite of himself: Teilhard de Chardin and ressourcement; 8. L'Eglise a ravi son coeur: Charles Journet and the theologians of ressourcement on the personality of the church; 9. Humani Generis and nouvelle theologie; 10. Analogy of truth: the sacramental epistemology of nouvelle theologie; 11. Nouvelle theologie: four historical stages of theological reform towards ressourcement (1935-65); 12. Ressourcement and the enduring legacy of post-Tridentine theology; II: CENTRAL FIGURES OF THE RESSOURCEMENT; 13. Marie-Dominique Chenu and Le Saulchoir: a stream of Catholic renewal; 14. Ressourcement, ecumenism, and pneumatology: the contribution of Yves Congar to nouvelle theologie; 15. Henri de Lubac: looking for books to read the world; 16. Danielou and the twentieth-century patristic renewal; 17. Henri Bouillard: the freedom of faith; 18. Balthasar and ressourcement: an ambiguous relationship; 19. Louis Bouyer and the unity of theology; III: RESSOURCEMENT AS A THREEFOLD PROGRAMME OF RENEWAL; 20. The renewal of biblical studies in France 1934-54 as an element in theological ressourcement; 21. Ressourcement and the renewal of Catholic liturgy: on celebrating the New Rite; 22. Knowing God in history and in the church: Dei Verbum and 'nouvelle theologie'; IV: RESSOURCEMENT AND 'THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD'; 23. Ressourcement and the retrieval of Thomism for the contemporary world; 24. Ressourcement and Vatican II; 25. Ressourcement, Vatican II, and eucharistic ecclesiology; 26. The theology of Karl Rahner: an alternative to the ressourcement?; 27. Benedict XVI: a ressourcement theologian?; 28. Lacan's return to Freud: a case of theological ressourcement?; 29. Expanding Catholicity through Ecumenicity in the Work of Yves Congar: Ressourcement, Receptive Ecumenism, and Catholic Reform; 30. Ressourcement theology and Protestantism; 31. French ressourcement theology and Orthodoxy: a living mutual relationship?; Epilogue: Ressourcement in retrospect