The “Atomic Bomb” of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange
In the period just after the end of World War II in the Church in France there appeared a progressivist movement more and more openly opposed to the official magisterium in Rome. With the growth of the audaciousness of the reformers, a confrontation became inevitable: it will finally happen with the publication of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange’s article.
The incident that led to this outbreak of open war was an article published in April 1946 by Fr. Danielou (whom Paul VI later created cardinal) in Les Etudes, the review of the French Jesuits. It contains, indeed, some very daring statements. Modernism, according to Fr. Danielou, had proposed bad solutions to real problems that must still be dealt with, in particular the problem of the gap between the modern world and the Church: and in order to resolve these problems it is necessary to finish once and for all with the “rigidity” caused by the reaction against Modernism which paralyzes everything. He writes: The feeling of a rupture between theology and life was experienced in an acute way not long ago by the generation in which was born the movement that was called Modernism. As in all religious crises, what was questionable about Modernism was
not the problem it raised but the solution it gave to it. For this problem was certainly (...)
note 3 sur le début (non cité ici) de la notice Giuseppe Ruggieri, “La discussione sullo schema Constitutionis dogmaticae Defontibus revelationis,” in the book edited by Etienne Fouilloux, Vatican II commence...: Approches Francophones (Leuven, 1993), P. 315
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la clé du débat: “These two abysses, historicity and subjectivity... oblige theological thought, therefore, to dilate itself. It is very clear, that Scholastic theology is foreign to these categories. Its world is the immobile world of Greek thought in which its mission was to incarnate the Christian message...." pour la suite -> Wikipedia
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