Bibliography:FCR Bibliography 0061
Shea, C. Michael. Ressourcement in the Age of Migne: The Jesuit Theologians of the Collegio Romano and the Shape of Modern Catholic Thought. (2017).
| Name(s) | Shea, C. Michael |
|---|---|
| Title | Ressourcement in the Age of Migne: The Jesuit Theologians of the Collegio Romano and the Shape of Modern Catholic Thought |
| Year | 2017 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Contained in | Nova et vetera, vol. 15/2 |
| Bibliographic level | Paper in journal |
| Keyword(s) | Jesuit Education; Collegium Romanum; Theology |
Giovanni Perrone and the nineteenth-century theological movement he initiated known as the Roman School assume at best only a meager place in histories of modern Roman Catholicism. Both, however, were of major and even defining significance for the development of the contemporary Church. Perrone was responsible for the first Roman theological curriculum designed to teach Church leaders a theological method for responding to intellectual and social changes that swept through Europe during the nineteenth century. Perrone and students of his curriculum dominated papal congregations involving doctrine from the 1840s until the early pontificate of Leo XIII. Members of the Roman School played seminal roles in the development of magisterial teaching on the Church, papal authority, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, faith, reason, revelation, tradition, and a number of issues relating to the Church’s relationship to the modern world. The Roman School provided Roman Catholics with a comprehensive response to ground-shifting developments in the social, religious, political, and intellectual landscape of the post-revolutionary West. These changes would have a profound impact upon modern Catholicism as a global institution. Yet, the Roman School numbers among the most neglected movements in modern Catholicism. One of the goals of this article will be to show that Perrone and the movement he inaugurated were no less important than, for example, Baroque Scholasticism, Jansenism, the Neoscholastic Revival, or la Nouvelle Théologie for the formation of contemporary Catholicism. The following pages offer an overview of Perrone’s thought and the Roman School under four headings. The first sketches the basic features of the Roman School, including the movement’s main figures, institutions, and questions of periodization and geographical expanse. The second offers an outline of the Roman School’s major theological themes and priorities. The third section explores Giovanni Perrone’s theological curriculum, the Praelectiones Theologicae, and shows how the curriculum provided a framework for subsequent representatives of the Roman School. These younger members of the Roman School also made significant contributions to theology and magisterial teaching and are covered in the fourth section. The fifth and final section traces features of the Roman School’s influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and offers suggestions for future study.
