French Jesuits, Origen, and Vatican II
This essay attempts to assess the theological significance of French Jesuit investment in the study of Origen. De Lubac and Daniélou read Origen as a vir ecclesiasticus, making him a resource for Vatican II’s new vision of the Church. They saw him as a scriptural thinker rather than a philosopher, a...
| Published in: | Modern theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Modern theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 445-459 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Origenes 185-254
/ Reception
/ Lubac, Henri de 1896-1991
/ Daniélou, Jean 1905-1974
/ Catholic church
/ Interreligiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Church
B Platonism B interreligious thought B Logos B Exegesis |
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| Summary: | This essay attempts to assess the theological significance of French Jesuit investment in the study of Origen. De Lubac and Daniélou read Origen as a vir ecclesiasticus, making him a resource for Vatican II’s new vision of the Church. They saw him as a scriptural thinker rather than a philosopher, and thus revealed him to be a master of spirituality. Origen’s account of the economy of salvation, founded on the Logos enlightening all minds, prompted the Jesuit theologians (heirs of such daring missionaries as Matteo Ricci and Ippolito Desideri) to undertake an interreligious thinking that was ahead of its time. While celebrating the rich syntheses thus created, which greatly broadened the Catholic mind after the crackdown against Modernism, we may find it more fruitful today to trace the significant tensions and ambiguities within the Jesuit reception and in Origen’s own thought, notably the tension between the soil of the Gospel (and of Jewish experience) and the Platonizing thought-forms that Daniélou attacked and de Lubac cherished. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12754 |