Broadly construed, reflection and debate over the relationship between the church and modernity was one of the defining features of 20th-century Catholicism, culminating but certainly not ending with the Second Vatican Council. This trajectory had a number of facets—theological, philosophical, political—all of which have been explored by a growing literature on the period. James Chappel’s Catholic Modern represents a key contribution to understanding the relationship between Catholicism and political modernity as experienced particularly in the decades before and immediately after the Second World War.
Rober, D. (2020). [Review of the book Catholic modern: The challenge of totalitarianism and the remaking of the church, by J. Chappel]. Theological Studies, 81(3), 744–745. Doi: 10.1177/0040563920963329b