Engaging the Church Fathers in Nineteenth-Century Catholic Theology

By Joseph Carola, S.J.

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The twentieth-century patristics movement, which theologically contributed to the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, is widely recognized. Less well known, but no less significant, was nineteenth-century theology's similarly dynamic return to ancient ecclesial sources, which profoundly shaped the Catholic articulation of the relation of faith and reason, the development of doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, and the nature of the Church.

In Engaging the Church Fathers in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism, Joseph Carola, S.J., follows the Scuola Romana, a contemporaneous, interconnected return to patristic sources pursued by Jesuit theologians at the Roman College—Giovanni Perrone, Carlo Passaglia, Clemens Schrader, and Johann Baptist Franzelin—and their precursors, interlocutors, and intellectual progeny, including Carola introduces readers to a rich theological world rarely explored, providing both biographical depth and attentive distillation of their writings, methodologies, and impacts by situating these seven theologians' lives and labours within the broader historical context of nineteenth-century Catholicism.

As Carola demonstrates, these extraordinary theologians engaged the Church Fathers and the Church's entire tradition with intellectual rigour, revitalizing the nineteenth-century Catholic Church at its core and providing a refined patristic methodology and faithful theological vision that are just as important for the Church in the twenty-first century as they were in the nineteenth.

Hardcover. 536 pages.