BIBLIOGRAPHY
The recent works of Émile Poulat locate the modernist
crisis in
a sociopolitical context. His edition of the memoir
of Albert Houtin
and Felix Sartiaux, Alfred Loisy, sa vie,
son
oeuvre (Paris, 1960), contains an indispensable bio-
bibliographical index of all
major figures in the controversy;
his Histoire,
dogme et critique dans la crise moderniste (Paris,
1962)
relates the periodical literature to the major works
of Loisy and
Harnack, discusses manuscript sources, and
offers a comprehensive
bibliography for the French and
English aspects of the crisis; finally,
his Introduction to
Intégrisme et catholicisme
intégral (Paris, 1969) assesses the
antimodernist
campaign, as does his article “'Modernisme'
et
'Intégrisme'; du concept polémique à
l'irénisme critique,”
Archives de Sociologie Religieuse, No. 27
(Jan.-June 1969).
Other studies are evaluated by Roger Aubert,
“Recent
Literature on the Modernist Movement,”
Historical Investi-
gations, Concilium, Vol. 17 (New York, 1966). For
Italian
modernism, Pietro Scoppola's Crisi
modernista e rin-
novamento
cattolico in Italia (Bologna, 1961) is important.
Alec
Vidler, whose The Modernist Movement in the Roman
Catholic Church (Cambridge, 1934) was the first study sym-
pathetic to Loisy and Tyrrell to
appear in English, writes
about a few major and several minor French
and English
participants in A Variety of Catholic
Modernists (Cambridge,
1970). The impact of modernism within
the Anglican
Communion is examined in H. D. A. Major, English
Modernism (1927), W. M. Pryke, Modernism as a Working
Faith (London, 1926), while the
inter-war tendency to
globalize the conflict of tradition and modernity
in religion
is clear in Victor Branford, Living
Religion (London, 1924).
For American echoes, see John
Ratté, Three Modernists
(New York and
London, 1967). Thomas F. O'Dea's The
Catholic
Crisis (New York, 1968) is one of the many post-
conciliar liberal attempts to reassess the crisis in
the light
of subsequent history; a useful collection of revisionist
essays
appeared in Continuum, 3 No. 2 (1965).
Jacques Maritain
takes a more traditional view in
Le paysan
de la Garonne (Paris, 1967).
Central sources for study of modernist ideas are the papal
documents
translated in Paul Sabatier's Modernism (New
York, 1908); the works of Alfred Loisy, most notably
L'Évangile et l'église
(Paris, 1903; Eng. trans. New York,
1912), Autour
d'un petit livre (Paris, 1903), Mémoires pour
serv̄ir à l'histoire
religieuse de notre temps, 3 vols. (Paris,
1930-31);
Maurice Blondel, L'Action (Paris, 1893), idem, The
Letter on Apologetics and History and Dogma
(London,
1964), idem (with Laberthonnière), Correspondance philo-
sophique (Paris, 1961); L. Laberthonnière, Essais de philo-
sophie
religieuse (Paris, 1903); Édouard Le Roy, Dogme et
critique (Paris, 1907; partial Eng.
trans. New York, 1918);
René Marlé, ed., Au coeur de la crise moderniste (Paris,
1960),
a collection of letters by Blondel, Loisy, von Hügel,
and
others; Baron Friedrich von Hügel, Selected
Letters,
1896-1924 (London, 1928); George Tyrrell, Through Scylla
and Charybdis (1907), idem, Christianity at the Crossroads
(London, 1908;
New York, 1966), and George Tyrrell and
Maud Petre, Autobiography and Life of George Tyrrell, 2
vols. (London,
1912).
Histories of the movement and the crisis which them-
selves form part of the explosion of ideas include
Jean
Rivière's article on modernism in the Dictionnaire de
théologie catholique, Vol. X,
Part 2, cols. 2010-47, his book,
Le Modernisme dans l'église (Paris,
1929), the article on
modernism in the Dictionnaire
apologétique de la foi
catholique, III, col.
592-637, and the classic pro-modernist
accounts of Albert Houtin,
Histoire du modernisme
catholique
(Paris, 1913) and Maud Petre, Modernism, Its
Failures
and Its Fruits (London, 1918).
JOHN RATTÉ
[See also Agnosticism;
Church as Institution; God;
Myth
in Biblical Times; Reformation.]
