{"id":16893,"date":"2016-08-17T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:34:56","slug":"ressourcement-retrieval-renewal-catholic-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/2016\/08\/17\/ressourcement-retrieval-renewal-catholic-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series Editor: David L. Schindler<\/strong><\/p>\n

The founding editorial statement of the rationale of this series:<\/em><\/p>\n

The middle years of this century marked a particularly intense time of crisis and change in\u00a0European Society. During this period (1930-1950), a broad intellectual and spiritual\u00a0movement arose within the European Catholic community, largely in response to the\u00a0secularism that lay at the core of the crisis. The movement drew inspiration from earlier\u00a0theologians and philosophers such as M\u00f6hler, Newman, Gardeil, Rousselot, and Blondel, as\u00a0well as from men of letters like Charles P\u00e9guy and Paul Claudel.<\/p>\n

The group of academic theologians included in the movement extended into Belgium and\u00a0Germany, in the work of men like Emile Mersch, Dom Odo Casel, Romano Guardini, and\u00a0Karl Adam. But above all the theological activity during this period centered in France. Led\u00a0principally by the Jesuits at Fourvi\u00e9re and the Dominicans at Le Saulchoir, the French\u00a0revival included many of the greatest names in twentieth-century Catholic thought: Henri\u00a0de Lubac, Jean Dani\u00e9lou, Yves Congar, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Louis Bouyer, and, in\u00a0association, Hans Urs von Balthasar.<\/p>\n

It is not true– as subsequent folklore has it– that those theologians represented any sort of\u00a0self-conscious “school” indeed, the differences among them, for example, between\u00a0Fourvi\u00e9re and Saulchoir, were important. At the same time, most of them were united in the\u00a0double conviction that theology had to speak to the present situation, and that the condition\u00a0for doing so faithfully lay in a recovery of the Church’s past. In other words, they saw\u00a0clearly that the first step in what later came to be known as aggiornamento had to be\u00a0ressourcement– a rediscovery of the riches of the whole of the Church’s two-thousand- year\u00a0tradition. According to de Lubac, for example, all of his own works as well as the entire\u00a0Sources chr\u00e9tiennes collection are based on the presumption that “the renewal of Christian\u00a0vitality is linked at least partially to a renewed exploration of the periods and of the works\u00a0where the Christian tradition is expressed with particular intensity.”<\/p>\n

In sum, for the ressourcement theologians theology involved a “return to the sources”\u00a0of\u00a0Christian faith, for the purpose of drawing out the meaning and significance of these\u00a0sources for the critical questions of our time. What these theologians sought was a spiritual\u00a0and intellectual communion with Christianity in its most vital moments as transmitted to us\u00a0in its classic texts, a communion which would nourish, invigorate, and rejuvenate\u00a0twentieth-century Catholicism.<\/p>\n

The ressourcement movement bore great fruit in the documents of the Second Vatican\u00a0Council and has deeply influenced the work of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph\u00a0Ratzinger, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.<\/p>\n

The present series is rooted in the twentieth-century renewal of theology, above all as the\u00a0renewal is carried in the spirit of de Lubac and von Balthasar. In keeping with that spirit,\u00a0the series understands ressourcement as revitalization: a return to the sources, for the\u00a0purposes of developing a theology that will truly meet the challenges of our time. Some of\u00a0the features of the series, then, will be:<\/p>\n

* a return to classical (patristic-mediaeval) sources;<\/p>\n

* a renewed interpretation of St. Thomas;<\/p>\n

* a dialogue with the major movements and thinkers of the twentieth century, with\u00a0particular attention to the problems associated with the enlightenment, modernity,\u00a0liberalism.<\/p>\n

The series will publish out-of- print or as yet untranslated studies by earlier authors\u00a0associated with the ressourcement movement. The series also plans to publish works by\u00a0contemporary authors sharing in the aim and spirit of this earlier movement. This will\u00a0include interpretations of de Lubac and von Balthasar and, more generally, any works in\u00a0theology, philosophy, history, literature, and the arts which give renewed expression to an\u00a0authentic Catholic sensibility.<\/p>\n

The editor of the Ressourcement series, David L. Schindler, is Gagnon Professor of\u00a0Fundamental Theology at the Pope John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C., and editor of\u00a0the North American edition of Communio: International Catholic Review, a federation of\u00a0journals in thirteen countries, founded in Europe in 1972 by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean\u00a0Dani\u00e9lou, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, and others.<\/p>\n

Analogia Entis –\u00a0<\/em>By Erich Przywara<\/p>\n

The Catholicity of Reason –\u00a0<\/em>By D. C. Schindler<\/p>\n

Joseph Ratzinger in Communio<\/em>, Volume 2 –\u00a0By Pope Benedict XVI<\/p>\n

The Epiphany of Love –\u00a0<\/em>By Livio Melina<\/p>\n

Maurice Blondel –\u00a0<\/em>By Oliva Blanchette<\/p>\n

Joseph Ratzinger in Communio<\/em>, Volume 1 –\u00a0By Pope Benedict XVI<\/p>\n

Medieval Exegesis<\/em>, Volume 3 –\u00a0By Henri De Lubac<\/p>\n

Love Alone Is Credible –\u00a0<\/em>By David L. Schindler<\/p>\n

Divine Likeness –\u00a0<\/em>By Marc Cardinal Ouellet<\/p>\n

The Nuptial Mystery –\u00a0<\/em>By Angelo Scola<\/p>\n

Medieval Exegesis<\/em>, Volume 2 –\u00a0By Henri De Lubac<\/p>\n

Medieval Exegesis<\/em>, Volume 1 –\u00a0By Henri De Lubac<\/p>\n

‘In the Beginning…’ –\u00a0<\/em>By Pope Benedict XVI<\/p>\n

Opening Up the Scriptures: Joseph Ratzinger and the Foundations of Biblical\u00a0Interpretation –\u00a0<\/em>By Jose Granados, Carlos Granados, Luis Sanchez-Navarro, eds.<\/p>\n

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope –\u00a0<\/em>By Charles Peguy<\/p>\n

Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race –\u00a0<\/em>By Romano Guardini<\/p>\n

Prayer: the Mission of the Church –\u00a0<\/em>By Jean Danielou<\/p>\n

The Heroic Face of Innocence –\u00a0<\/em>By Georges Bernanos<\/p>\n

In the Fire of the Burning Bush: An Initiation to the Spiritual Life –\u00a0<\/em>By Marko Ivan Rupnik<\/p>\n

On Pilgrimage –\u00a0<\/em>By Dorothy Day<\/p>\n

We, the Ordinary People of the Streets –\u00a0<\/em>By Madeleine Delbrel<\/p>\n

Discovering God –\u00a0<\/em>By Henri de Lubac<\/p>\n

Hans Urs von Balthasar: a Theological Style –\u00a0<\/em>By Angelo Scola<\/p>\n

Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter –<\/em>By Hans Urs Von Balthasar<\/p>\n

The Letter on Apologetics &amp; History and Dogma –\u00a0<\/em>By Maurice Blondel<\/p>\n

Outside the Series:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Being Holy in the World: Theology and Culture in the Thought of David L. Schindler –\u00a0<\/em>By Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. and D.C. Schindler, eds.<\/p>\n

Additional References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology –\u00a0<\/em>By Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray<\/p>\n

Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery –\u00a0<\/em>By Hans Boersma<\/p>\n

Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry –\u00a0<\/em>By Hans Boersma<\/p>\n

See also the useful Resourcement Bibliography at<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.crossroadsinitiative.com\/media\/articles\/ressourcement-theology-bibliography\/<\/a><\/p>\n

As well as:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.crossroadsinitiative.com\/media\/articles\/ressourcement-theology-aggiornamentoand-the-hermeneutics-of-tradition\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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