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Ep. 75 - Don't Scapegoat the Nouvelle Théologie - Richard DeClue
It has become fashionable in traditionalist circles to blame all problems in modern theology on the so-called nouvelle théologie, including a range of thinkers such as Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Hans Küng and Josef Ratzinger. But this is based on a number of misconceptions: about the nature of the nouvelle théologie itself, and about the views held by some of these theologians.
Nouvelle théologie is not a unified movement in which everyone held the same views. Some of the "new theologians" were radicals and modernists who wanted the Church to bow to the modern world…
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