Date of Award

7-1968

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Philosophy

Abstract

Maurice Blondel (1861-1949) was as much at the center of the Modernist crisis as anyone of his time. He corresponded regularly, during the crucial years (1900-1927), with Baron Friedrich van Hugel, Alfred Loisy, and Lucien Laberthonniere. George Tyrrell had read his principal writings before 1900. Blondel was regularly attacked by Catholic dogmatic theologians, and one of his works on modern apologetics was sent to Rome for condemnation. Like the more famous Modernists, Loisy and Tyrrell, Blondel was deeply concerned that the age-old Church speak effectively to and learn humbly from the modern world. His central problem was to understand and explain how the Church could be faithful to its historical tradition and yet be fully open to the successive movements of history.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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