June 03, 2011

Books

Religion Booknotes

Lawrence S. Cunningham

Yves CongarEssential WritingsEdited by Paul LakelandOrbis, $20, 208 pp. It is hard for younger Catholics to appreciate how revolutionary the nouvelle théologie was when it first appeared because so much of it has been absorbed into the main current of Catholic theology. The French Dominican Yves Congar (1904–95), one of the nouvelle théologie’s leading lights, ranks as on (...)


 

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