A Defense of the Catholic Religion - Beda Mayr, Ulrich L. Lehner

A Defense of the Catholic Religion

The Existence, Necessity, and Limits of of Infallible Church
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2024
The Catholic University of America Press (Verlag)
978-0-8132-3773-2 (ISBN)
87,25 inkl. MwSt
The Benedictine Beda Mayr, OSB, (1742-1794) was one of the main figures of the German Catholic Enlightenment. This text, translated from the German original for the first time, presents a theologian who intentionally went to the margins of orthodoxy in order to allow for more interconfessional dialogue.
The Benedictine Beda Mayr, OSB, (1742-1794) was one of the main figures of the German Catholic Enlightenment. He was not only the first Catholic to wrestle with the challenges of Reimarus and Lessing, but also the first to develop an ecumenical methodology for a reunion of the churches. The text, translated from the German original for the first time, presents a theologian who intentionally went to the margins of orthodoxy in order to allow for more interconfessional dialogue. Mayr argued that Catholic theology should follow minority opinions for unsettled dogmatic questions, which would allow for easier union agreements with Protestant churches. Moreover, he suggested limiting ecclesial infallibility to directly revealed truths, thereby reducing the authoritative truth claims of conciliar or papal decisions.

Although the study of Catholic Enlightenment is booming among historians and theologians, too few texts are available in reliable translations. A major strength of this edition is not only that its introduction introduces the reader to the colorful landscape of eighteenth-century theological discussions, but also presents the entire text of Mayr's book (with the exception of its appendix) thereby allowing the reader to see the strengths and weaknesses of Enlightenment ecumenism.

Mayr's Limited Infallibility was put on the Index of Forbidden Books, on which it remained until the 20th Century. It invites readers to a modern, non-scholastic way of theologizing for the sake of Christian unity.

Beda Mayr, OSB (1742-1794) was a Bavarian Benedictine philosopher, apologist, and poet. Ulrich L. Lehner is Warren Foundation Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and the co-editor of The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Early Modern Catholic Sources ; 9
Verlagsort Washington
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
ISBN-10 0-8132-3773-4 / 0813237734
ISBN-13 978-0-8132-3773-2 / 9780813237732
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