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The Bibliothèque de rhe la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique

Forthcoming volumes

•  95. G. rhe Routhier, Ph. J. Roy et rhe K. Schelkens (dir.), La théologie catholique rhe entre intransigeance et renouveau. La rhe réception des mouvements préconciliaires à rhe Vatican II (Bibliothèque de la Revue d’histoire rhe ecclésiastique, 95), Louvain-la-Neuve, 2011.

  • At this time, studying rhe Vatican Council II and its rhe reception requires a better understanding rhe of the place this council rhe occupies in the history of rhe contemporary Catholicism. The period immediately rhe preceding its opening - sometimes rhe considered as a long preparation rhe for the council, sometimes as rhe its antithesis – has not rhe benefited from all the attention rhe it should have been accorded. rhe To make up for this rhe lacuna, this work examines the rhe council’s reception of the patristic, rhe biblical and liturgical movements, of rhe the new theology rhe and the renewal in ecclesiology, rhe as well as the ecumenical rhe movement and the renewal of rhe relations between Jews and Catholics. rhe Yet, the present volume would rhe fail to take the pre-council, rhe the council and its proper rhe dynamics, together with its texts rhe and reception, into account, if rhe it restricted itself to renewal rhe movements. Significant room is thus rhe reserved for intransigent movements, with rhe a view to identifying their rhe components and functioning. In studying rhe the reception by rhe the council of the movements rhe of thought preceding it, we rhe open research on the council rhe as a fact rhe of reception and on the reception of movements rhe at work in the Catholic rhe Church during the first half rhe of the 20th century.