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Article: Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- December 25, 2007
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Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians By Fergus Kerr. Blackwell, 240 pp., $29.95.
FERGUS KERR'S new book is so good that the only thing worth criticizing about it is its title. Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians is descriptively accurate, but it suggests the detachment of a dull textbook. Don't let that fool you: this book is genuinely important, and a delight to read besides.
Kerr might have called it The Triumph of Origen, for each of the ten figures he considers Catholic greats of the past century did his part to rejuvenate the reputation of the great third-century Alexandrian, whether on the nature of the spiritual senses, the presence of God ...