Traditionalism (19th-century Catholicism)
Traditionalism in the context of 19th-century Catholicism refers to a theory which held that all metaphysical, moral, and religious knowledge derives from God's revelation to man and is handed down in an unbroken chain of tradition.[1][2] It denied that human reason by itself has the power to attain to any truths in these domains of knowledge.[1] It arose, mainly in Belgium and France, as a reaction to 18th-century rationalism and can be considered an extreme form of anti-rationalism.[1][2] Its chief proponents were Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), L. G. A. de Bonald (1754–1840) and F. R. de Lamennais (1782-1854).[1][2] Their doctrines were advocated in a modified form by L. E. M. Bautain (1796–1867), Augustin Bonnetty (1798–1879), Casimir Ubaghs (1800-1875) and the philosophers of the Louvain school.[1][3] The fundamental distrust of human reason underlying traditionalism was eventually condemned in a number of papal decrees and finally ruled out by the Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith of the First Vatican Council in 1870.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e f "Traditionalism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.
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- ^ Gerald A. McCool (1989). Nineteenth-century Scholasticism: The Search for a Unitary Method. Fordham Univ Press. p. 126.