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II: Catholic Theology and the Crisis of Classicism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Nicholas Lash
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New Blackfriars , Volume 66 , Issue 780 , June 1985 , pp. 279 - 287
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Copyright © 1985 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Lonergan, B.J.F., ‘Dimensions of Meaning’, Collection, ed. Crowe, F.E., Darton Longman and Todd, 1967, pp. 265, 266Google Scholar.

2 For a somewhat fuller telling of this tale, cf. Lash, N.L.A., ‘Modernism, Aggiornamento and the Night Battle’, Bishops and Writers: Aspects of the Evolution of Modern English Catholicism, ed. Hastings, A., Anthony Clarke, 1977, pp. 51–79Google Scholar.

3 Dru, A., ‘Modernism and the Present Position of the Church’, Downside Review, Vol. 72 (1964), p. 110Google Scholar.

4 L. Bouyer, The Decomposition of Catholicism, tr. C.U. Quinn, Chicago, 1968, p. 3.

5 Lonergan, op. cit., p. 266.

6 Lonergan, , Method in Theology, Darton Longman and Todd, 1972, pp. 326–7Google Scholar.

7 Lonergan, , ‘The Future of Christianity’, A Second Collection, ed. Ryan, W.F.J. and Tyrrell, B.J., Darton Longman and Todd, 1974, p.161Google Scholar.

8 Loc. cit.

9 Lonergan, Method, p. xi.

10 Cf. e.g., Rahner, K., ‘A Small Question Regarding the Contemporary Pluralism in the Intellectual Situation of Catholics and the Church”, Theological Investigations, Vol. 6, tr. K.—H. and B. Kruger, Darton Longman and Todd, 1969, pp. 21–30Google Scholar; ‘Pluralism in Theology and the Unity of the Creed in the Church’, Theological Investigations, Vol. 11, tr. D. Bourke, Darton Longman and Todd, 1974, pp. 3–23Google Scholar.

11 Cf. Lash, Nicholas, Voices of Authority, Sheed and Ward, 1976, pp. 43–54Google Scholar.

12 Lonergan, Method, p. xi.

13 Rahner, , ‘Ecumenical Theology in the Future’, Theological Investigations, Vol. 14, tr. Bourke, D., Darton Longman and Todd, 1976, p. 256Google Scholar.

14 J.H. Newman, The Via Media of the Anglican Church, 3London, 1877, pp.xv–xciv. For the analysis of this preface on which I am drawing in the following paragraphs, cf. Lash, Nicholas, Theology on Dover Beach, Darton Longman and Todd, 1979, pp. 89–108Google Scholar.

15 Newman, Via Media, p. xl.

16 Ibid., p. xli.

17 Rahner, K., ‘Magisterium and Theology’, Theological Investigations, Vol. 18, tr. Quinn, E., Darton, Longman and Todd, 1984, p. 63, his stressGoogle Scholar.

18 Thus Newman speaks, again and again, of the likelihood of ‘collisions’ between the various offices and their requirements: cf. e.g. Via Media, pp. xliii, li, lxxxii, xciii.

19 That concession is sadly, too sanguine. The sentence was written before the news of the attempt to silence Leonardo Boff by the naked exercise of power in apparent disregard of the authority of the Brazilian episcopate, of “due process”, and of considerations of natural justice.

20 Boff is co‐director of our Third World Theology section.