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The Roman School
Series: - Jesuit Studies, Volume: 43
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.
Aaron Pidel, S.J., Ph.D. (2017, University of Notre Dame) teaches ecclesiology and fundamental theology at Pontifical Gregorian University and Historical Theology at Marquette University. He has authored
Church of the Ever Greater God: The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara (2020) and
The Inspiration and Truth of Scripture: Testing the Ratzinger Paradigm (2023).
Matthew Levering, Ph.D. (2000, Boston College) is James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or co-author of over thirty-five books on systematic and moral theology, including Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology (2023).
Justin M. Anderson, Ph.D. (2011, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is Professor of Moral Theology at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2020), and co-author of Pursuing the Honorable: Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military (2019).
Matthew Levering, Ph.D. (2000, Boston College) is James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or co-author of over thirty-five books on systematic and moral theology, including Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology (2023).
Justin M. Anderson, Ph.D. (2011, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is Professor of Moral Theology at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2020), and co-author of Pursuing the Honorable: Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military (2019).
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
Justin M. Anderson, Matthew Levering and Aaron Pidel, S.J.
1 The Roman Ecclesiological Vision in the Government of the Popes in the Early 1800s
Roberto Regoli
2 The Molinist Consensus: Jansenism and the Modern Catholic Theology of Grace
Bruce D. Marshall
3 The Church and the Churches: Ecclesiology and the View of Non-Catholic Christians in the Roman School
Bernhard Knorn, S.J.
4 Passaglia on the Divine Trinity
Thomas Marschler
5 Political Theology and Papal Primacy in Passaglia’s Pamphlets and Newman’s Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
6 Franzelin’s Theology of Scripture and Its Influence
Aaron Pidel, S.J.
7 Between Aquinas and Scotus: Matthias Scheeben on the Purpose of the Incarnation
Trent Pomplun
8 Nineteenth-Century Ressourcement: the Greek Patristic/Latin Scholastic Synthesis of Scheeben’s Theology of Grace
Vincent L. Strand, S.J.
9 Philosophical Inquiry according to the Roman School: Perrone, Kleutgen and Contemporary Thomism on the Role of Prima Principia
Justin M. Anderson
10 Vice and Grace: Did Kleutgen Mar Dogma?
Nicolas Steeves, S.J.
11 Does the Neckar Flow into the Tiber? Walter Cardinal Kasper and the Roman School’s Theology of Tradition
Grant Kaplan
Index
Notes on Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
Justin M. Anderson, Matthew Levering and Aaron Pidel, S.J.
1 The Roman Ecclesiological Vision in the Government of the Popes in the Early 1800s
Roberto Regoli
2 The Molinist Consensus: Jansenism and the Modern Catholic Theology of Grace
Bruce D. Marshall
3 The Church and the Churches: Ecclesiology and the View of Non-Catholic Christians in the Roman School
Bernhard Knorn, S.J.
4 Passaglia on the Divine Trinity
Thomas Marschler
5 Political Theology and Papal Primacy in Passaglia’s Pamphlets and Newman’s Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
6 Franzelin’s Theology of Scripture and Its Influence
Aaron Pidel, S.J.
7 Between Aquinas and Scotus: Matthias Scheeben on the Purpose of the Incarnation
Trent Pomplun
8 Nineteenth-Century Ressourcement: the Greek Patristic/Latin Scholastic Synthesis of Scheeben’s Theology of Grace
Vincent L. Strand, S.J.
9 Philosophical Inquiry according to the Roman School: Perrone, Kleutgen and Contemporary Thomism on the Role of Prima Principia
Justin M. Anderson
10 Vice and Grace: Did Kleutgen Mar Dogma?
Nicolas Steeves, S.J.
11 Does the Neckar Flow into the Tiber? Walter Cardinal Kasper and the Roman School’s Theology of Tradition
Grant Kaplan
Index
Long ignored, the Jesuit theologians of the nineteenth century, dubbed “The Roman School”, exerted tremendous influence over the theology of its own day, official Church doctrine, and subsequent twentieth-century voices of renewal. This book presents their thought and work for the first time in a book length form in a modern European language.