{"product_id":"defending-the-faith-william-h-marshner-9780813228969","title":"Defending the Faith: An Anti-Modernist Anthology","description":"At the dawn of the 20th Century, several writers who were to become famous under the title of \"Modernists\" were advancing a deep agenda for reform in the faith and praxis of the Roman Catholic Church. But their agenda met with serious and scholarly opposition from another group of writers, whose essays are here made available in English. They include the historian and university rector Pierre Battifol, the biblical exegete M.J. Lagrange, OP, the Jesuit historical theologians Eugène Portalié and Léonce de Grandmaison, and the philosophers Eugène Franon and Joannès Wehrlé. All welcomed the historico-critical methods of research, and far from thinking them fatal to orthodoxy (as the Modernists did), they thought the Church's faith would survive and be strengthened by rigorous scholarship. These thinkers, then, are the true predecessors of Pius XII (\u003ci\u003eDivino afflante Spiritu\u003c\/i\u003e) and Vatican II (\u003ci\u003eDei Verbum\u003c\/i\u003e). At the same time, these men thought outside the boxes drawn by 19th Century Positivism (Loisy), anti-intellectualist pragmatism (LeRoy), and romantic mysticism (Tyrrell). Their concerns hold new significance in the light of John Paul II's 1990 encyclical \u003ci\u003eFides et Ratio\u003c\/i\u003e. Reading these too-long forgotten writers, then, deepens in a new way one's understanding of the Catholic Church's decision to decline and even condemn the Modernists' agenda, whether one ultimately applauds that decision or deplores it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William H. Marshner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813228964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813228969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catholic University of America Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"William H. Marshner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435701743871,"sku":"9780813228969","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d424d47-a3c2-47c0-85d2-30caded3e4f6.jpg?v=1777152128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defending-the-faith-william-h-marshner-9780813228969","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}