Alfred Loisy and modern biblical studies / Jeffrey L Morrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrow, Jeffrey L., 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loisy, Alfred, 1857-1940.

Loisy, Alfred.

Modernism (Christian theology)--Catholic Church.

Modernism (Christian theology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019]

Summary:

The French Catholic priest and biblical scholar Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) was at the heart of the Roman Catholic Modernist crisis in the early part of the twentieth century.He saw much of his work as an attempt to bring John Henry Newman's notion of development of doctrine into the realm of Catholic biblical studies, and thereby transform Catholic.

Contents:

Things new and old: Loisy's place in the controversy over modernism

The Bible and its ancient Near Eastern milieu in nineteenth-century France

Loisy's work in the study of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament

Loisy on the Book of Genesis in light of mesopotamian literature

Back to the sources: the history of the source critical tradition upon which loisy drew

Loisy's engagement with biblical scholarship: Fr. Richard Simon as heroic symbol

Loisy's defense of historical biblical criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3144-2

OCLC:

1083357951