![]() ![]() ![]() Not that there were no historians: there were, and they did excellent work in reporting about past laws and rules. There was, however, no such parallel movement in the field of canon law. ![]() The seemingly new ideas provoked resistance, however, and many scholars suffered sanctions, but the hard times did not last long: through the initiative of the humble Pope John XXIII, the "new theology" became a wellspring for Vatican II. The searchers' new insights into old truths sent a fresh wind through the Church, and the movement they instigated became known-paradoxically-as la nouvelle theologie. Their efforts bore fruit, and the tradition once again revealed its riches. In the thirties and forties of the last century numerous continental theologians, sensing the need for church renewal, turned to the past and sought inspiration for a "true reform" in the early understanding of revelation. ![]()
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