Medievalism: A Reply to Cardinal Mercier

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1909 - 214 pages
 

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Page 206 - Oui, je vous le dis, tout ce que vous lierez sur la terre sera lié dans le ciel et tout ce que vous délierez sur la terre sera délié dans le ciel.
Page 193 - Le modernisme, disait-il, consiste essentiellement à affirmer que l'âme religieuse doit tirer d'elle-même, rien que d'elle-même, l'objet et le motif de sa foi. Il rejette toute communication révélée qui, du dehors s'imposerait à la conscience, et ainsi il devient, par une conséquence nécessaire, la négation de l'Autorité doctrinale de l'Église établie par Jésus-Christ, la méconnaissance de la hiérarchie divinement constituée pour régir la société chrétienne
Page 17 - And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Page 185 - YOUR Eminence, will you never take heart of grace and boldly throw open the doors and windows of your great medieval cathedral, and let the light of a new day strike into its darkest corners and the fresh wind of Heaven blow through its mouldy cloisters...
Page 211 - Église, très ancienne et connue de tous, fondée et constituée à Rome par les deux très glorieux Apôtres Pierre et Paul...
Page 148 - The difference is that whereas the Medievalist regards the expression of Catholicism, formed by the synthesis between faith and the general culture of the thirteenth century, as primitive and as practically final and exhaustive, the Modernist denies the possibility of such finality and holds that the task is unending just because the process of culture is unending (quoted in Reardon, 1970: 165).
Page 184 - ... histories, our forged decretals, our spurious relics ; to clear off the mountainous debts to truth and candour incurred by our ancestors in the supposed interests of edification — what would it avail to exterminate those swarming legions of lies, if we still keep the spirit that breeds them ? . . . The only infallible guardian of truth is the spirit of truthfulness. Not till the world learns to look to Rome as the home of truthfulness and straight dealing, will it ever learn to look to her...
Page 96 - That they all may be one so that the world may believe" are words placed on the lips of Jesus by John the evangelist (John 17:21). The context of these words is important: Jesus wants the world to believe that he is one with God and that God has sent him.
Page 184 - God ; to purge our liturgy of fables and legends ; to make a bonfire of our falsified histories, our forged decretals, our spurious relics ; to clear off the mountainous debts to truth and candour incurred by our ancestors in the supposed interests of edification— what would it avail to exterminate...
Page 48 - I believe firmly (he wrote) in the necessity and •utility of theology, but of a living theology that continually proceeds from and returns to that experience of which it is the ever tentative and perfectible analysis.

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