Enhancing Ressourcement: Johann Adam Möhler's Retrieval of Anselm. (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaplan, Grant
• Is Part Of: Theological studies. Volume 84:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 312
• Page End: 336
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: Anselm of Canterbury -- Johann Sebastian Drey -- medieval theology -- Johann Adam Möhler -- ressourcement -- retrieval -- tradition; Theology -- Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 230
• DOI: 10.1177/00405639231170311
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-5639

Abstract

This article begins by suggesting a wider or more formal understanding of the movement known as ressourcement . After engaging a recent volume of essays on retrieval, the article takes up the work of one contemporary and one bygone theologian in order to highlight how their work embodies the call for a broader understanding of returning to the sources. It then uses Johann Adam Möhler's reading of Anselm and later medieval theology as exemplary of this call.