Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology

In the decades leading up to the Second Vatican Council, the movement of nouvelle theologie caused great controversy in the Catholic Church and remains a subject of vigorous scholarly debate today. In Nouvelle theologie and Sacramental Ontology Hans Boersma argues that a return to mystery was the movement's deepest motivation. Countering the modern intellectualism of the neo-Thomist establishment, the nouvelle theologians were convinced that a ressourcement of the Church Fathers and of medieval theology would point the way to a sacramental reintegration of nature and the supernatural. In the context of the loss suffered by both Catholics and Protestants in the de-sacramentalizing of modernity, Boersma shows how the sacramental ontology of nouvelle theologie offers a solid entry-point into ecumenical dialogue. The volume begins by setting the historical context for nouvelle theologie with discussions of the influence of significant theologians and philosophers like Mohler, Blondel, Marechal, and Rousselot. The exposition then moves to the writings of key thinkers of the ressourcement movement including de Lubac, Bouillard, Balthasar, Chenu, Danielou, Charlier, and Congar.Boersma analyses the most characteristic elements of the movement: its reintegration of nature and the supernatural, its reintroduction of the spiritual interpretation of Scripture, its approach to Tradition as organically developing in history, and its communion ecclesiology that regarded the Church as sacrament of Christ. In each of these areas, Boersma demonstrates how the nouvelle theologians advocated a return to mystery by means of a sacramental ontology.

ISBN 0199229643   Pages 344 ISBN13 9780199229642 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 677 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 241 Publication date 07 May 2009   Width (mm) 160 DEWEY 230.04   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Abbreviations
1		Introduction: The Rupture between Theology and Life
2		Eyes of Faith: Precursors to a Sacramental Ontology
3		The Mystery of the Human Spirit: De Lubac and Bouillard on Nature and the Supernatural
4		The Law of the Incarnation: Balthasar and Chenu on Nature and the Supernatural
5		A Wheel within a Wheel: Spiritual Interpretation in de Lubac and Danielou
6		Living Tradition: Recovering History for the Church
7		Church as Sacrament: The Ecclesiology of de Lubac and Congar
8		Conclusion: The Future of Ressourcement
		Bibliography
		Scripture Index
		General Index

...provides enough background and references related to the ideas and disputes surrounding the nouvelle theologie that the interested reader can easily pursue a given issue more deeply...Specialists as well as those with a more general interest in theology should find the author's insights and overarching thesis worth engaging. Bryan Kromholtz, O.P. The Thomist ...very instructive and meticulously researched...a very welcome and much-needed first treatment of a group of figures as a group, and will no doubt bear fruit in the further research it inspires. Peter M. Candler Jr., IThe Journal of Theological Studies Vol 62 Part 2 Oct 2011 this is a must read book... It is for those that are hungry and hunger for a more meaningful faith. Ron Dart, Clarion Journal

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