TomáS Petrácek

The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism (eBook, ePUB)

Catholic Criticism in the Twentieth Century
Übersetzer: Livingstone, David; Hart, Addison

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the Catholic Church's acceptance of the historical-critical method and modernization through the pivotal work of European theologians and biblical scholars.

One of the few topics in Catholic studies that demonstrates a marked about-face in theological attitudes within the Catholic Church is the reception of the historical-critical method in biblical exegesis and its dramatic rise from outright condemnation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to its official acceptance by the 1990s. The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism tells the dramatic story of the ultimate acceptance of this modern method by the Catholic Church as it worked out the relationship between faith and reason in view of advances in the social and natural sciences. Particular attention to the contributions of Czech theologians to the field of biblical exegesis foregrounds the tensions at play in the church's gradual recognition of the value of the historical-critical method to a better understanding of the Christian scriptures.

In this extensive study of the church's response to the historical-critical method, Petrácek broaches wider topics, such as the relationship between the Catholic Church and society in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the modernization of the church in the face of a changing world, the balance between institutional authority and individual freedom of conscience, and the balance between scholarly independence and ecclesial convictions. The attitude of the Catholic Church to modern scholarly research in many ways reflects its complicated relationship to the modern world in general, as The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism shows. Scholars in biblical studies, Catholic studies, and the history of the church in the Czech Republic will find Petrácek's work an enlightening addition to their collections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268202880
• Artikelnr.: 65258840

Autorenporträt

TomáS Petrácek is a professor of modern social and church history at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic. He is the author of Church, Society and Change: Christianity Impaired by Conflicting Elites.

Addison Hart is an editor and translator who lives in Wooster, Ohio.

David Livingstone teaches English literature and other subjects at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has translated a number of texts from Czech into English.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Catholic Biblical Scholarship and the Beginnings of the
Historical-Critical Method
3. Biblical Interpretation and the Teaching Order of the Church
4. The Opponents of Progressive Exegesis
5. The Motives for Opposing Historical-Criticism
6. The Impact and Consequences of the Resistance to Exegesis
7. The Process of Adopting the Historical-Critical Method in the Catholic
Church
8. Final Reflections
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
List of Names