{"product_id":"divided-friends-william-l-portier-9780813221649","title":"Divided Friends: Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States","description":"On September 8, 1907, Pope St. Pius X brought the simmering Roman Catholic Modernist crisis to a boil with his encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis. In \u003ci\u003e Pascendi's \u003c\/i\u003e terms, recent biblical, historical, scientific, and philosophical attempts to take seriously subjective mediations of God's revelation led only to subjectivism and agnosticism. Pius X condemned these as \"Modernism\" and the \"synthesis of all heresies.\" This Modernism threatened the very human capacity to know and believe in God as a reality apart from human consciousness. Prior to 1907 no Catholic thinkers had used the term \u003ci\u003e Modernism \u003c\/i\u003e to designate the theological or biblical work they were doing. \u003ci\u003e Pascendi \u003c\/i\u003e, with its provisions for diocesan vigilance committees and censorship of books, combined with the subsequent Oath against Modernism (1910), created a climate of suspicion and fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn two sets of intertwined biographical portraits, spanning two generations, \u003ci\u003e Divided Friends \u003c\/i\u003e dramatizes the theological issues of the modernist crisis, highlighting their personal dimensions and extensively reinterpreting their long-range effects. The four protagonists are Bishop Denis J. O'Connell, Josephite founder John R. Slattery, together with the Paulists William L. Sullivan and Joseph McSorley. Their lives span the decades from the Americanist crisis of the 1890s right up to the eve of Vatican II. In each set, one leaves the church and one stays. The two who leave come to see their former companions as fundamentally dishonest. \u003ci\u003e Divided Friends \u003c\/i\u003e entails a reinterpretation of the intellectual fallout from the modernist crisis and a reframing of the 20th century debate about Catholic intellectual life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William L. Portier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813221641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813221649\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 11\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"William L. Portier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761045041407,"sku":"9780813221649","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9df804ec-40d9-4795-85c3-bb7211050ada.jpg?v=1706680216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/divided-friends-william-l-portier-9780813221649","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}