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Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology

A Return to Mystery

by Hans Boersma

  • Hardback
  • 344 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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In the decades leading up to the Second Vatican Council, the movement of nouvelle theologie caused great controversy in the Catholic Church and remains a subject of vigorous scholarly debate today. In Nouvelle theologie and Sacramental Ontology Hans Boersma argues that a return to mystery was the movement's deepest motivation. Countering the modern intellectualism of the neo-Thomist establishment, the nouvelle theologians were convinced that a ressourcement of the Church Fathers and of medieval theology would point the way to a sacramental reintegration of nature and the supernatural. In the context of the loss suffered by both Catholics and Protestants in the de-sacramentalizing of modernity, Boersma shows how the sacramental ontology of nouvelle theologie offers a solid entry-point into ecumenical dialogue. The volume begins by setting the historical context for nouvelle theologie with discussions of the influence of significant theologians and philosophers like Mohler, Blondel, Marechal, and Rousselot. The exposition then moves to the writings of key thinkers of the ressourcement movement including de Lubac, Bouillard, Balthasar, Chenu, Danielou, Charlier, and Congar.Boersma analyses the most characteristic elements of the movement: its reintegration of nature and the supernatural, its reintroduction of the spiritual interpretation of Scripture, its approach to Tradition as organically developing in history, and its communion ecclesiology that regarded the Church as sacrament of Christ.In each of these areas, Boersma demonstrates how the nouvelle theologians advocated a return to mystery by means of a sacramental ontology.
Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology and Scripture as Real Presence
Scripture as Real PresenceNouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology

  • Author

    Hans Boersma

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 2009

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    344

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199229642

  • ISBN-10

    0199229643

  • Eden Code

    1249561

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