Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church. By John W. O’Malley
John O’Malley, SJ, who died in September 2022 at the age of 95, was an American scholar of Catholic history, not only of remarkable longevity, but of considerable range. Much admired and honoured in the US for his contribution, particularly to Jesuit scholarship, O’Malley was also a much-loved profe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 425-426 |
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| Summary: | John O’Malley, SJ, who died in September 2022 at the age of 95, was an American scholar of Catholic history, not only of remarkable longevity, but of considerable range. Much admired and honoured in the US for his contribution, particularly to Jesuit scholarship, O’Malley was also a much-loved professor. His three books on the last three ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church bear out his qualities as a teacher.What Happened at Vatican II (Harvard University Press, 2008), Trent: What Happened at the Council (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (Harvard University Press, 2018) all carry the hallmarks of a teacher at pains to clarify complex crosscurrents for an audience unfamiliar with the intricacies of ecclesiastical theological debate and political machinations. All three volumes fulfil a helpful role as clear, modern introductions to the tectonic shifts in Catholicism that surrounded all three Councils. They will be happily and gratefully absorbed, as much for their brevity and succinctness as for their clarity, by generations of undergraduates, and by those venturing into this field with little background knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flac158 |