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- Title
Newman and Twentieth-Century French Theology.
- Authors
HURLEY, James Patrick
- Abstract
In this thesis, we examine the presence of John Henry Newman in three twentieth-century French theologians, namely, Yves-Marie Congar, Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou. In the first three chapters we trace the introduction of Newman's thought into Catholic theology, via the Francophone world. Despite early attempts to portray him -erroneously- as the father of modernism, Newman gradually came to be recognized as a highly innovative, yet orthodox theologian. His chief contributions are in the areas of doctrinal development and the rationality of the faith. Chapter four considers Newman as prophet and Congar as peritus of the Second Vatican Council. Two sub-sequent chapters are dedicated to an analysis of citations of Newman by Congar, de Lubac and Daniélou. All three cite him in their works, although Daniélou considerably less than the other two. The final chapter has a fourfold purpose: firstly, to identify direct citations of Newman in Council fathers' addresses at Vatican II; secondly, to recall Newman's importance to several Francophone conciliar periti', thirdly, to briefly compare Newman's thought with conciliar teaching; fourthly, to survey some postconciliar interpretations of Newman. We conclude that the Englishman influenced the Council's content through faithful intermediaries -among them his genuine «French interpreters»- by being really present in their consciences as they drafted Vatican li. This French Newmanian influence continues after the Council.
- Subjects
NEWMAN, John Henry, 1801-1890; CONGAR, Yves, 1904-1995; LUBAC, Henri de, 1896-1991; DANIELOU, Jean, 1905-1974; CATHOLIC Church doctrines; CATHOLIC Church; MODERNISM (Christian theology); FAITH &; reason in Christianity; VATICAN Council (2nd : 1962-1965)
- Publication
Excerpta et Dissertationibus in Sacra Theologia, 2014, Vol 61, p5
- ISSN
0214-6827
- Publication type
Article