Sacramentum Mundi Online
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Subject: Religious Studies
Edited by: Karl Rahner with Cornelius Ernst and Kevin Smyth.
Advisor for the online edition: Karen Kilby, Durham University
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Sacramentum Mundi Online is the online edition of the famous six volume English reference work in Catholic Theology, edited (in 1968-1970) by Karl Rahner, one of the main Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology was originally published by Herder Verlag, and is now available online at Brill.
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Nominalism
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The nature of the problems usually raised under the heading of “Nominalism” and also their impact on the history of thought can be best described by examining their historical origins and suggesting a possible response to them at the present day. 1. The word “Nominalism” indicates the controversy which arose in the 11th and 12th centuries apropos of the ontological or metaphysical value of the general concept, the “universal”. It was a revival of the debate which had been left open by Porphyrius (d. 304) in his introduction to Aristotl…
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Nouvelle Théologie
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The expression “nouvelle théologie” appeared apparently for the first time in an article by Mgr. Parente in the
Osservatore Romano, February 1942, apropos of two Dominican writers. It was taken up again in 1946 by P. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., apropos of certain Jesuit theologians. The expression had a definitely unfavourable sense, and was used to denounce new methods, or tendencies judged to be departures from what was considered true orthodoxy. The points concerned were the immutability of dogma and its developme…
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