UPDATE 14 Feb 2023:
The Faith Once For All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology is a daring selection of essays by prominent orthodox Catholic scholars recently published by Emmaus Academic Press.
The book includes a Foreword and Introduction written by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, and an Afterword authored by Robert Cardinal Sarah. The book is edited by Father Kevin Flannery, SJ.
The essays in the first part of this collection seek to answer the question, “What went wrong with Catholic theology since the Second Vatican Council?”
Following a brief account of the movement in modern theology from its philosophical basis in Kant and Hegel to the nouvelle théologie and later progressivist theologies of the twentieth century, the writings of Karl Rahner, Walter Kasper, and Bernhard Häring are treated as representative of principal problematic trends, and the concept of heresy is surveyed as it has been understood in the past and as it operates in the Church today.
The essays in the second part indicate the way forward for Catholic doctrinal and moral theology, examining and distinguishing the orthodox use of the sources of theology of magisterial teachings, the deposit of faith in its development, the “sense of the faithful” (sensus fidelium), Sacred Scripture, and Church councils and synods.
The book is intended for seminarians and young priests who are orthodox in their theology but perhaps lacking an understanding of how today’s liberal Catholic theology fell away from the Tradition.
How is it that we ended up where we are today?
However, the book will also interest orthodox theology students and earnest readers of theology.
Edward Feser’s treatment of the Magisterium is deeply instructive and challenging to the present pontificate. The same is true of John Rist’s masterful commentary on contemporary heresies. These essays are especially valuable in debunking the current German synodal way and stand as a warning about the upcoming Synod on Synodality.
The book has received accolades from the recently deceased George Cardinal Pell and the prolific Gerhard Cardinal Müller.
It is a must read in this day and age.
PRE-ORDER for 27 March ’23 – US HERE – UK HERE (that’s the page, but it isn’t yet available)
Originally Published on: Feb 8, 2023
This is an important book. I’ve been waiting for it for a long time. I know well the now-anonymous co-editor, so I’ve been able to follow it’s lengthy gestation.
PRE-ORDER the hardcover.
The Faith Once for All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology
Edited by Kevin L. Flannery, [AND BY AN ANONYMOUS EDITOR]
- Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke (Foreword and Introduction)
- C.C. Pecknold
- Christopher J. Malloy
- Thomas Heinrich Stark
- Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
- John M. Rist
- Edward Feser
- Eduardo Echeverria
- Kevin L. Flannery, SJ
- Robert Dodaro, OSA
- John Finnis
- Guy Mansini, OSB
- Robert Cardinal Sarah (Afterword)
US HERE – UK HERE (that’s the page, but it isn’t yet available)
I’ve read Edward Feser’s contribution on the Magisterium.
This is going to be a nightmare for liberals. It delves into the real meaning of sensus fidei… the sense of the faithful. That’s exactly what the left does not want.
More to come.
Last night I didn’t schedule a formal ZedNet (ham radio net through analog and digital modes), but I wrote that I would have my handsets on in case someone “showed up”. Three people did. We used different modes and they sort of worked. One fellow, however, transmitted with DMR (and we could all hear) and listened on Echolink.
