Theological Renewal and the Resurgence of Integrism: The Rene Draguet Case (1942) in Its Context

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-429-3036-0
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 266, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theolo

On July 1, 1942 the Holy Office issued a decree that the Louvain

professor of fundamental theology René Draguet (1896-1980) had to be

deprived of his teaching. The decree did not clarify the reasons for

this sanction. Earlier on in the same year two books were placed on the

Index: M.-D. Chenu’s Une École de théologie: Le Saulchoir

(1937) and L. Charlier’s Essai sur le problème théologique

(1938), while a dissertation of a Louvain doctor in theology and student

of Draguet, V. Buffon, was ‘condemned’ without being put on the Index.

These theologians shared a pursuit of theological renewal, either

directly (e.g. by elaborating a new theory of theology) or indirectly

(e.g. by introducing methodological innovations in the domain of

doctrinal history). As both Charlier and Buffon were to a large extent

dependent on Draguet’s theological theory and method, the Louvain

professor appears as the key figure of a ‘Louvain school’ of theological

renewal that – together with the school of Le Saulchoir – was combated

very harshly by the Holy Office in 1942. The quick succession of

condemnations gave rise to the fear that a revival of ‘integrism’ was

taking place against a kind of neo-modernism, labeled as nouvelle

théologie.

The book consists of two parts. In the first part, the projects of

theological renewal of Draguet, Charlier and Chenu are studied. Most

attention is given to the not well-known theological project of Draguet,

that is discussed in detail on the basis of his teaching and

publications. Next the theological positions of Charlier and Chenu are

analysed from a comparative perspective. In this way it is shown how the

catch word nouvelle théologie made an amalgam of very

divergent projects of theological renewal. The second part is devoted to

the history of the condemnations of 1942. The opening up of the Draguet

archives in 2005 allowed for the historiography of the condemnation and

rehabilitation of Draguet in its relation to the condemnations of Chenu,

Charlier and Buffon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Pril, W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte