Document Type
Marquette Only
Language
eng
Format of Original
3 p.
Publication Date
1-2012
Publisher
Catholic University of America Press
Source Publication
Catholic Historical Review
Source ISSN
0008-8080
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1353/cat.2012.0056
Abstract
The 2002 opening of the Vatican archives to scholars through 1922 has enabled a series of highly illuminating publications on the modernist period, the most recent being the present volume. Claus Arnold introduces this superb collection with an astute observation:To understand the modernist crisis on its own terms, one must see it in the context of the struggle between Christianity and “modernity” from the early Renaissance to the present; ecclesiastical opponents saw modernism as but an acute phase of this age-old confrontation. Decisions made during this acute phase had, Arnold observes, precedents in Pope Leo XIII’s interventions regarding biblical criticism, which Pope Pius X escalated to a worldwide antimodernist campaign with chilling consequences lasting to the present day.
Recommended Citation
Schultenover, David G., "Review of La Condanna del Modernismo: Documenti, Interpretazioni, Conseguenze, edited by Claus Arnold and Giovanni Vian" (2012). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 205.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/205
Comments
Published version. Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 1, (January 2012): 145-147. DOI. © 2012 Catholic University of America Press. Used with permission.