Authors: Fergus Kerr
ISBN-13: 9781405120845, ISBN-10: 1405120843
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: New Edition
Fergus Kerr, a member of the Order of Preachers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, holds an honorary fellowship in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He is the editor of New Blackfriars, the periodical of the English Dominicans. His previous publications include After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism (Blackwell, 2002).
Book Synopsis
This book reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century.
- A new book from one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English
- Reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century
- Covers theologians including: Chenu, the guru of the French worker priest movement; Congar who was imprisoned in Colditz; and Küng who was banned from teaching for decades because of his radical views
- Highlights the involvement of each theologian with the Second Vatican Council, and the dissatisfaction of most with what was achieved
- Includes a chapter on the controversial prelate, Pope John Paul II.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Before Vatican II 1
Marie-Dominique Chenu 17
Yves Congar 34
Edward Schillebeeckx 52
Henri de Lubac 67
Karl Rahner 87
Bernard Lonergan 105
Hans Urs von Balthasar 121
Hans Kung 145
Karol Wojtyla 163
Joseph Ratzinger 183
After Vatican II 203
The Anti-modernist Oath 223
Index 226
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