"The synthesis of all heresies"--100 years on.

From: Theological Studies | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The condemnation of Roman Catholic Modernism in 1907 was a traumatic event--in the dual sense that it reflected the traumatic impact of intellectual and political modernity on the Church, and in that it induced a climate of repressive reaction that affected Catholic scholarship for decades thereafter. The issues raised by the Modernists form an integral part of the trajectory of 20th-century theology.

To discover who people think they are, what they think they are doing, and to what end they think they are doing it, it is necessary to gain a working familiarity with the frames of ...

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