RT Review T1 Modern Catholic Perspectives Catholicism. The story of Catholic Christianity. By Gerald O'Collins and Mario Farrugia. Pp. xiii + 409 incl. 13 figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. £63. 0 19 925994; 0 19 925995 X Priests, prelates and people. A history of European Catholicism since 1750. By Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett. Pp. x + 390. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003. £25. 1 86064 665 4 JF The journal of ecclesiastical history VO 56 IS 4 SP 749 OP 753 A1 Zalar, Jeffrey T. LA English PB Cambridge Univ. Press YR 2005 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784766100 AB Postmodern communitarian theory insists that all knowledge is participant knowledge: who we are is at least if not more foundational to learning than any philosophy of what we can know. These two books, one written by Jesuit priests and professors of systematic theology at the Gregorian University in Rome and the other by non-Catholic professional historians working at the University of Reading, invite us to consider this assertion. K1 Rezension DO 10.1017/S0022046905005282