About This Issue

] About This Issue P ublishing issues on the anniversaries of significant historical events is integral to our journal’s interpretive thematic framework. The most recent issue dedicated to such an event was our winter 2006 issue on the fortieth anniversary of Dignitatis Humanae, The Declaration on Religious Liberty. This issue on “Pascendi dominici gregis, 1907-2007: Centennial Essays on Responses to the Encyclical on Modernism” features recent scholarship on the American, English, French, and Italian responses to this historical event. Relying upon the wide-ranging expertise of Professor C.J.T. Talar for advice on this issue, I asked him to explore the historical meanings of the encyclical in order to set the stage for the articles analyzing those who were affected by the condemnation of Modernism. Talar’s two articles in this issue underscore his command of the topic and related ideas in French religious thought which are featured in his articles and books published over the past twenty-five years. These essays represent the continuous development of historical theology in the post-Vatican II period. We are very grateful to the contributors for making this such a stimulating issue. Lawrence Barmann is professor emeritus of both Theological Studies and American Studies at St. Louis University. Michael Kerlin is a professor of Philosophy at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. Giacomo Losito is scientific collaborator at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt-on-Main). William L. Portier is the Mary Ann Spearin Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton. C.J.T Talar is professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology in Houston, Texas. Christopher J. Kauffman ...