Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Irven M Resnick & Kenneth F Kitchell Jr
Chicago University Press, £16.95, 224 pages
One standard narrative of the latter part of the 20th century tells the story of the fracturing of a theological consensus built on the 19th-century resurgence of scholasticism under Leo XIII. For some this is a cause for celebration: a time for a returning to sources and breaking theological discourse out of the shackles of the manuals; the recognition that such a consensus was really not a consensus at all. For others it marks a profound loss, marking a period of scepticism and liberalism within theology.
