On the Square Today

Matthew Levering reviews Hans Boersma’s  Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology :

Boersma’s book is much more than a survey of key aspects of the ressourcement approach, although it is that. Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology opens up a new way of interpreting the ressourcement theologians. Against the tendency to read them primarily within intra-Catholic debates, Boersma shows that their most important contribution consisted in their attack on the rationalisms of the twentieth century. At their best, these men called their contemporaries to understand all aspects of reality—from human desire, to existence itself, to Scripture, history, and the Church—as pointers to something infinitely greater than can be canvassed by the empirical method or logical analysis.