The Roman School: Nineteenth-century Jesuit Theology and Its Achievements

Did the twentieth-century patristic renewal come from nowhere? Was all nineteenth-century theology neo-scholastic? Do theologians' personal failings invalidate their theologies? These are the questions that guide the contributors to this volume as they reassess the legacy of the so-called Roman School, a nineteenth-century theological network centered in the Jesuit Roman College. Though not entirely uncritical, The Roman College represents a collective effort at sympathetic historical retrieval. It shows how various figures connected to the Roman School--Perrone, Passaglia, Schrader, Franzelin, Newman, Scheeben, and Kleutgen--engaged theologically the problems of their own day and set the stage for later theological renewal. Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction Chapter 1 The Roman Ecclesiological Vision in the Government of the Popes in the Early 1800s Chapter 2 The Molinist Consensus: Jansenism and the Modern Catholic Theology of Grace Chapter 3 The Church and the Churches: Ecclesiology and the View of Non-Catholic Christians in the Roman School Chapter 4 Passaglia on the Divine Trinity Chapter 5 Political Theology and Papal Primacy in Passaglia’s Pamphlets and Newman’s Letter to the Duke of Norfolk Chapter 6 Franzelin’s Theology of Scripture and Its Influence Chapter 7 Between Aquinas and Scotus: Matthias Scheeben on the Purpose of the Incarnation Chapter 8 Nineteenth-Century Ressourcement: The Greek Patristic/Latin Scholastic Synthesis of Scheeben’s Theology of Grace Chapter 9 Philosophical Inquiry according to the Roman School: Perrone, Kleutgen and Contemporary Thomism on the Role of Prima Principia Chapter 10 Vice and Grace: Did Kleutgen Mar Dogma? Chapter 11 Does the Neckar Flow into the Tiber? Walter Cardinal Kasper and the Roman School’s Theology of Tradition Roman School Index