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An in-depth study of nouvelle theologie and the ressourcement movement. Hans Boersma argues that a return to mystery was the movement's deepest motivation. He sets out the context for the early development of the movement prior to Vatican II and provides detailed analysis of its characteristic elements and thinkers.

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`...provides enough background and references related to the ideas and disputes surrounding the nouvelle theologie that the interested reader can easily pursue a given issue more deeply...Specialists as well as those with a more general interest in theology should find the author's insights and overarching thesis worth engaging.' Bryan Kromholtz, O.P. The Thomist `...very instructive and meticulously researched...a very welcome and much-needed first treatment of a group of figures as a group, and will no doubt bear fruit in the further research it inspires.' Peter M. Candler Jr., The Journal of Theological Studies `this is a must read book ... It is for those that are hungry and hunger for a more meaningful faith.' Ron Dart, Clarion Journal `Uniting a breadth of theological themes with its exploration of sacramental depths, B.'s book is one of the best introductions to the Nouvelle Theologie.' Joseph S. Flipper, Theological Studies `This scrupulously well-documented book is the fruit of a labour of love.' Philip Kennedy, Journal of Ecclesiastical History `I have rarely, if ever, encountered such an assured and reliable penetration of a Catholic mindset from someone outside that tradition as that achieved here by Boersma.' John Sullivan, Heythrop Journal `The author is to be warmly congratulated on a book that is both thoroughly researched and pleasingly written, an exercise in good, solid, purposeful scholarship, which sustains the reader's interest.' Stephen N. Williams, Themelios `Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery is a true contribution to ecumenical theology. It should be essential reading for ministerial students in the Protestant tradition and for Catholic seminarians, as well as students in faculties of education, religious studies and theology.' Gabriel Flynn, Irish Theological Quarterly `a balanced and informative investigation into the defining intellectual movement of twentieth-century Catholicism.' Robert St Hilaire, Scottish Journal of Theology

It is clear that Boersma is not simply doing historical theology for its own sake, but recognizes that at the heart of this movement is a theologically rich attempt to recover the heart of theology from the great tradition... Boersma works through several key issues at the heart of of the nouvelletheologie movement and shows that the impulse behind the various interpretative decisions was the recovery of a sacramental ontology. --Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

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Hans Boersma holds the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. Before coming to Regent in 2005, he taught for six years at Trinity Western University in nearby Langley. Boersma holds a doctorate from the University of Utrecht. His articles have appeared in numerous journals. His publications include Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition (Baker Academic), which won the 2005 Christianity Today best theological book of the year award; Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (OUP, 2009); and Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry (Eerdmans, 2011).

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