Bible and the Crisis of Modernism

Tomáš Petráček is a professor of modern social and church history at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic. He is the author of Church, Society and Change: Christianity Impaired by Conflicting Elites.Addison Hart is an editor and translator who lives in Wooster, Ohio.David Livingstone teaches English literature and other subjects at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has translated a number of texts from Czech into English.

• Foreword1. Introduction2. Catholic Biblical Scholarship and the Beginnings of the Historical-Critical Method3. Biblical Interpretation and the Teaching Order of the Church4. The Opponents of Progressive Exegesis5. The Motives for Opposing Historical-Criticism6. The Impact and Consequences of the Resistance to Exegesis7. The Process of Adopting the Historical-Critical Method in the Catholic Church8. Final ReflectionsBibliographyList of AbbreviationsList of Names

"Detailed and nuanced... Petráček's book offers a balanced alternative to hostile histories, one that will benefit readers regardless of what they think of the truth claims of the Catholic Church." —Christopher Shannon, Reading Religion"A detailed study of the Catholic Church's acceptance of the historical-critical method and modernization through the pivotal work of European theologians and biblical scholars... Scholars in biblical studies, Catholic studies, and the history of the church in the Czech Republic will find Petráček's work an enlightening addition to their collections." —American Society of Church History"While we have any number of good scholarly books on modernism, there has not been such a thorough account of its history in relation to the great debates about biblical hermeneutics as The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism." —Lawrence Cunningham, editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity"This book is highly successful in weaving together an insightful scholarly account of the modernist crisis tightly focused on biblical studies, a nuanced consideration of the theological and exegetical questions at issue and engaging biographical portraits of several important but lesser-known Catholic exegetes of the twentieth century." —The Catholic Biblical Quarterly