George Tyrrell

thumb|George Tyrrell George Tyrrell SJ (1861 – 1909) was an Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and a controversial theologian and scholar. A convert from Anglicanism, Tyrrell joined the Jesuit order in 1880 and was ordained as a priest in 1891. He was a prolific writer whose efforts to adapt and reinterpret Catholic teachings in light of modern science and culture made him a central figure in the controversy over modernism in the Catholic Church that flared up towards the end of the 19th century. Tyrrell rejected the neo-scholastic thinking then dominant among the Jesuits and in the Vatican, insisting that the Church's response to the problems faced by modern believers could not be merely to reiterate the theological and philosophical doctrines systematized in the 13th century by Thomas Aquinas. Quotes about George Tyrrel, una delle figure più significative del modernismo europeo e assiduo collaboratore della rivista romana Nova et vetera promossa dal Buonaiuti stesso, negava che il progresso terreno potesse da solo essere un ideale sufficiente a colmare l'ansia religiosa dell'umanità e a riassorbire in sé tutta la religiosità. George Tyrrel, one of the most significant figures of European modernism and a regular contributor to the Roman magazine Nova et vetera promoted by Buonaiuti himself, denied that earthly progress alone could be a sufficient ideal to fill humanity's religious anxiety and to reabsorb all religiosity into itself. Pietro Scoppola, Chiesa e democrazia in Europa e in Italia, in AA.VV., Storia del cristianesimo 1878-2005, vol. 1, I cattolici e la questione sociale, cCh. 4, pp. 147-184, supplement to Famiglia cristiana, Periodici San Paolo, Milano, 2005.ù See also Alfred Loisy Modernism in the Catholic Church Ernesto Buonaiuti External links Tyrrell, Georges Category:1861 births Category:1909 deaths Category:Jesuits Category:Catholics from Ireland Category:Theologians from Ireland Category:Roman Catholic priests Category:People excommunicated by the Catholic Church