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In this book, Shaun Blanchard uses a close study of the Synod of Pistoia (1786) to argue that the roots of the Vatican II reforms must be pushed back beyond the widely acknowledged twentieth-century forerunners of the Council, beyond Newman and the Tübingen School in the nineteenth century, to the eighteenth century, in which a variety of reform movements attempted
ressourcement and
aggiornamento.
List of contents
- Introduction: How Far Back do the Roots of the Council Go?
- Chapter I: A Hermeneutic of True Reform: Interpreting Vatican II
- Chapter II: Ressourcement and Aggiornamento in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter III: Radical Reform in Tuscany: Scipione de'Ricci and Late Jansenism
- Chapter IV: The Synod of Pistoia: Radical Forerunner of Vatican II
- Chapter V: The Spirit of Pistoia: The Reception and Failure of a Bold Reformist Vision
- Chapter VI: The Ghost of Pistoia: The Legacy of Auctorem Fidei at Vatican II
- Conclusion: The Memory of Pistoia and the Hermeneutic of True Reform
- Bibliography
- Sources on Scipione de'Ricci, the Synod of Pistoia, and Italian Jansenism
- Other Early Modern Sources
- Other Contemporary Sources
About the author
Shaun Blanchard is Assistant Professor of Theology at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work in early modern and modern Catholic theology and history has appeared in Pro Ecclesia, New Blackfriars, Theological Studies, and US Catholic Historian.
Summary
In this book, Shaun Blanchard uses a close study of the Synod of Pistoia (1786) to argue that the roots of the Vatican II reforms must be pushed back beyond the widely acknowledged twentieth-century forerunners of the Council, beyond Newman and the Tübingen School in the nineteenth century, to the eighteenth century, in which a variety of reform movements attempted ressourcement and aggiornamento.
