Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Shaun Blanchard, Shaun (Assistant Professor of Theology Blanchard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 19.03.2020
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9780190947798
• ISBN: 978-0-19-094779-8
• Pages: 370
• Dimensions (packing): 16.4 x 24.2 x 3 cm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
• Subjects: RELIGION / Theology; Theology