The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Volume II Theology for appreciation of the Church

for appreciation of the Church

distinction

The fourth volume in the Thomist Tradition book series

What is the object of Christian faith

or mendicant reforms—enacted “the rediscovery of living Tradition

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Volume II Theology for appreciation of the ChurchBy M. J. Lagrange, O. P. When the Modernism crisis at the end of the nineteenth century threatened to lay an axe to the root of Catholic scholarship, Pope Leo XIII responded unflinchingly. The Church, he wrote, has nothing to fear from truth. Encouraging the growth and expansion of Catholic intellectual life, Leo XIII called in particular for the revitalization of biblical exegesis to oppose rationalist misinterpretations of Scripture. As an answer to