A View from Rome: On the Eve of the Modernist Crisis

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book of Its Kind
Review: For Roman Catholics and others interested in what Europeans called "Modernism" in the early 20th century, this books provides the best explanation of the hows and whys of the social interaction that led to the condemnation of "Modernist" Roman Catholic scholars. Accusations of Modernism still ring in the halls of traditionalist Roman Catholic scholars. To understand their accusations and their laments, Schultenover's book is indispensible. His approach is historical, with primary and some previously unpublished sources, and anthropological, viewing events with the lenses of Mediterranean cultural anthropology. The result is an excellent overview.

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book of Its Kind
Review: For Roman Catholics and others interested in what Europeans called "Modernism" in the early 20th century, this books provides the best explanation of the hows and whys of the social interaction that led to the condemnation of "Modernist" Roman Catholic scholars. Accusations of Modernism still ring in the halls of traditionalist Roman Catholic scholars. To understand their accusations and their laments, Schultenover's book is indispensible. His approach is historical, with primary and some previously unpublished sources, and anthropological, viewing events with the lenses of Mediterranean cultural anthropology. The result is an excellent overview.