The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform

by Shaun Blanchard

In this book, Shaun Blanchard argues that the roots of the Vatican II reforms must be pushed back beyond the widely acknowledged twentieth-century forerunners of the Council, beyond Newman and the T bingen School in the nineteenth century, to the eighteenth century, when a variety of reform movements attempted ressourcement and aggiornamento. This close study of the Synod of Pistoia (1786) sheds surprising new light on the nature of church reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190947799
• ISBN13: 9780190947798
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"