Wednesday, January 11, 2006

new Commonweal articles

The Church in Crisis - Pope Benedict’s Theological Vision by Joseph A. Komonchak

Ratzinger located himself within one broad stream of the theological renewal, the one that included figures like Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou, great advocates of the return to the sources (ressourcement). He showed little interest in another stream (represented by figures such as Marie-Dominique Chenu, Bernard Lonergan, Karl Rahner, and Edward Schillebeeckx) which, inspired by Aquinas, proposed and attempted a positive engagement with modern intellectual and cultural movements...
EDITORIAL - A Hospitable Place

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Older articles by Joseph A. Komonchak

Vatican II as Ecumenical Council - Yves Congar’s vision realized

Missing person - a review of Heart of the World, Center of the Church
Communio Ecclesiology, Liberalism, and Liberation
by David L. Schindler

1 comment:

Fred said...

This line is pretty amusing in an idiodic way: "He showed little interest in another stream . . . which . . . proposed and attempted a positive engagement with modern intellectual and cultural movements..."

Anybody can propose and attempt a positive engagement with modern intellectual and cultural movements. But if one does not understand one's own tradition, this dialogue quickly resolves itself according to the terms set by modernism.