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Il y a cent ans: la réception de l’encyclique Pascendi Dominici Gregis en France

2008; Université catholique de Louvain; Volume: 103; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.rhe.3.179

2294-1088

Louis-Pierre Sardella,

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

The encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, of 8 September 1907, condemned the attempts at new approaches in philosophy, exegesis, theology, history and apologetics that began in the 1890’s as manifestations of a dangerous heresy. Public opinion outside the Church saw, at best, a short halt in an unavoidable evolution in mentalities and, at worst, a sign of the Church’s usual intransigeance as regards the modern world. Among Catholics, aside from delighting integrists, the various ways in which the encyclical Pascendi was greeted veiled a profound disarray and reflected the root cause of the modernist crisis: the conflict between a hierarchized institution with a strict dogmatic structure and the aspirations of modern consciousness for more autonomy in seeking and presenting truth.