Re)reading, Reception, and Rhetoric : Approaches to Roman Catholic Modernism / C. J. T. Talar

C. J. T. Talar

ISBN 10: 0820440647 / ISBN 13: 9780820440644

Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1999

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Re)reading, Reception, and Rhetoric : Approaches to Roman Catholic Modernism In deutscher Sprache. pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Re)reading, Reception, and Rhetoric : Approaches to Roman Catholic Modernism / C. J. T. Talar
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820440647
• ISBN 13: 9780820440644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1999.
• Condition: gut
• Weight: 2000 grams

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Synopsis

The controversies in Roman Catholicism that became known as the «modernist crisis» (1890-1910) have been characterized on more than one occasion as a «dialogue of the deaf.» Certainly there was need on the part of theological innovators to exercise caution in putting forth their ideas in an ecclesiastical climate that was suspicious of novelty or even actively hostile toward it. This accounts for the carefully constructed, nuanced character of many of their writings, which has made interpretation difficult. Understanding was complicated by the fundamental underlying differences that separated innovators from defenders of the traditional positions. In this study the phenomenology of reading, rereading theory, reception theory, rhetorical analysis, and literary approaches to autobiography are used to focus close readings of French modernist texts. Such approaches enhance understanding of how texts by Alfred Loisy, M.-J. Lagrange, and Albert Houtin were constructed, and how their critics received these efforts.

About the Author

The Author: C. J. T. Talar is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Catholic University of America in 1980 and his S.T.D. in Theology from St. Mary's in 1987. He has published Metaphor and Modernist: The Polarization of Alfred Loisy and His Neo-Thomist Critics (1987) and has contributed to a variety of journals on subjects related to nineteenth-and twentieth-century Catholicism. Currently he serves as co-convener of the Roman Catholic Modernism Seminar of the American Academy of Religion.