The neo-scholastic and the conservative Catholic thought of the nineteenth century: a historical-theological reading

Abstract

The object of the discussion is to seek in the origin of the conservative thought of the XIX century and its relation with the neo-scholastic theology, to the interpretative key of the ecclesial and theological renewal provided by the Vatican Council II. The connection between theology and Catholic dogmatic and its relation with the conservative thought intended to ensure the return to an ideal of Christianity through a closed opposition with a philosophy combative and an "anti-modernist" dogmatic theology. On the one hand, conservative thinking reaches its decline and remains the margin in front of the emergence of the new one provided by the Council and on the other hand, the disconnection of the theology of all the Christianity, permit a renewal of Catholic dogmatic methodology.