Before continuing to review the discussion as it has been carried on within Protestant theological circles, we may perhaps be permitted a brief excursus into the realm of Roman
Catholic biblical scholarship, for Strauss's book produced an immediate reaction from a Roman Catholic New Testament professor in which what has come to be, to the best of our knowledge, the standard Roman Catholic viewpoint, was developed.
In a more recent work, American
Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History From the Early Republic to Vatican II, Fogarty offers, among other things, a useful antidote to the claims of some Catholic «restorationists» that the anti-Modernist excesses of the early twentieth century were the invention of fevered post-Vatican II liberal imaginations.
The changes in the liturgy are rooted in the theological stirrings after World War I: the gradual breakdown of neo-Scholastic metaphysics, the beginning of
Catholic biblical scholarship, and a return to the study of the church fathers.
Not exact matches
A truly ecclesial
biblical scholarship supports the Church's evangelical mission by giving new power to
Catholic preaching,
Catholic catechesis, and
Catholic evangelism.
In drawing up the «schemata» that would be discussed by the council fathers, they aimed at raising to the level of permanently binding
Catholic doctrine the broad rejection of modern developments in
biblical scholarship and theology that had been the norm in Rome since the modernist crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century.
German theological and
Biblical scholarship created a stir in both Protestant and Roman
Catholic circles in Germany and many other lands.
However, in the mid twentieth century
biblical scholarship was welcomed into the Roman
Catholic Church.