Panorama of the Modernist Crisis in Belgium (1898-1914)
(2013) Religious Modernism in the Low Countries — ISBN: [978-9-0429-2741-4], p. 45-63, published
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- (en) Since Lieve Gevers' article pubished 15 years ago (Belgium and Modernist crisis : Main trends in the Historiography, dans A. Botti et R. Cerrato (dirs), Il modernismo tra cristianità e secolarizzazione. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Urbino, 1-4 ottobre 1997 [Studi e testi 6], Urbin, 2000, p. 285-294), the historiography of the subject has developed significantly and, if the main tendencies it describes remain pertinent, it is however advisable “to sand the edges” a bit in taking recent research into account. Chronologically, in Belgium, the first murmurings of the crisis in fact appeared in the last years of the 19th century with the “Henry Poels affair”, but in fact only relate to Belgium insofar as he was Van Hoonacker's student. The problems of Ladeuze, on the other hand, and it was a first, beginning in 1902, crystallized all debate, both on the level of the Belgian ecclesiastical authorities and in Rome, and did so at least until 1911. The difficulties encountered by Rasneur and Coppieters in 1908-1909 were rather limited and basically related to the fate their master, namely Paulin Ladeuze. As for the problems Delehaye and Van Hoonacher had with the Index as of 1910, they are above all due to the personal action in Rome of Alphonse Delattre, a prime opponent of Lagrange and the progressive school, and relate more to Roman policy than the Belgian Church. While it is true that the integrist reaction is not foreign to this, it was first of all orchestrated in France, and not in Belgium where the integrism was limited to a particular group.
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Courtois, L. (2013). Panorama of the Modernist Crisis in Belgium (1898-1914). In Kenis L., Van Der Wall E. (dir.) (ed.), Religious Modernism in the Low Countries (p. p. 45-63). Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium,vol. CCLV. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/54231