The Ressourcement of Black Catholicism in Cyprian Davis, OSB

Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB (1930-2015) was a Benedictine monk and the preeminent historian of black Catholicism in the United States. Although he began his scholarly career in the study of medieval monasticism, he brought cultural history methods of the Annales school to bear on black Catholicism. While...

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Main Author: Flipper, Joseph S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Modern theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 826-842
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Davis, Cyprian 1930-2015 / USA / Catholic theology / Black theology / Historiography / Study of literary sources
IxTheo Classification:CF Christianity and Science
FD Contextual theology
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
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Summary:Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB (1930-2015) was a Benedictine monk and the preeminent historian of black Catholicism in the United States. Although he began his scholarly career in the study of medieval monasticism, he brought cultural history methods of the Annales school to bear on black Catholicism. While he is known for his archival work on black Catholicism and spirituality, Davis's work should be understood as ressourcement, a theological retrieval of lost sources of black Catholicism. Cyprian Davis offers an iteration of ressourcement that takes seriously the often-violent rupture that black Catholics experienced. The theological vision that arises out of his historical recovery is one attentive to the experience of division, fragmentation, loss of traditional moorings, alienation from a wider tradition, and rejection by the church.
ISSN:1468-0025
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12569