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About the Authors
Charles Journet
CHARLES JOURNET (1891–1975) was a Swiss priest and theologian who taught at the major seminary in Fribourg from 1924 to 1970. He was the author of more than two dozen books and many articles on Catholic theology. Together with Jacques Maritain, he was the founder of the European journal Nova et Vetera. In 1965, Journet was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in recognition of his work in ecclesiology.
Dominic Spiekermann (Translator)
Dominic Spiekermann is a Catholic theologian teaching at Thomas Aquinas College in California. He earned theology degrees from the international Theological Institute in Austria (S.T.M.) and from the University of Fribourg (S.T.L. and Th.D.). His research and publications, in English, French, and German, have mainly been in the areas of Christology and soteriology. He currently resides in California with his wife and their three children.
What People Are Saying
“This book on the Church is much more than just a book on the Church! It is a book on union with God and the presence of God in and through the Church, involving the whole of theology, from Trinitarian theology to eschatology. Deification and the indwelling of the Trinity are at the center of Journet’s understanding of the Church. The Church of the Word Incarnate is the home of the Holy Spirit, in whom and by whom she is led back to the Father. Journet’s work is a major resource for the renewal of Catholic theology.”
GILLES EMERY, O.P.
University of Fribourg
“Like his theological master, St. Thomas Aquinas, Charles Cardinal Journet understood all branches of theology to be discourse about God. Journet’s theology of the Church is no exception to this. With this third volume of his remarkable The Church of the Word Incarnate, Journet offers a theology of the Church rooted in the Person of the Holy Spirit—the uncreated soul of the Church—from whose presence the created soul animating the Church is a gracious effect. Journet’s love for the Church and the power of his theology comes from just this: He never lost sight of the truth that the Church is a work of God, through Christ, with the Holy Spirit as its soul and principle of unity. This translation is a gift to the English-speaking world, which has for too long been deprived of Journet’s wisdom.”
ROGER W. NUTT
Ave Maria University
“Not Congar but rather Journet is the greatest ecclesiologist of the modern era. Reading this extraordinary volume, I bemoaned anew my failure to assimilate the thought of this brilliant master, whose work makes most writings of the present time (my own included) look trivial. Here Journet explores such themes as Christ’s capital grace, God’s permission of Christian division, ecumenism with Orthodox and Protestants, Karl Barth’s ecclesi¬ology, the visibility of the Church, members of the Church who are outside the visible bounds of the Church, the Church as communion, the Church as the Trinity’s dwelling place, and so on. Journet’s vibrant erudition shines forth in his profound explanations, as for instance in his account of the created soul of the Church as ‘Christic charity’ or ‘Christ-conforming charity’ and in his definition of catholicity as ‘the God of love embracing humanity through the Cross.’ Every serious Catholic theologian will marvel at the spiritual depth and theological culture present here. Let us commit ourselves to the task of reaching up to the mind of Journet.”
MATTHEW LEVERING
Mundelein Seminary
“Theologians today are rediscovering the scholasticism of the 1940s and 1950s. Once shunned as passé—if not dangerous—theologians like Gabriele Roschini, Carolus Balić, Jean-François Bonnefoy, and Tiburtius Gallus are being read and discussed again. The Dominican tradition deserves a special place in this ressourcement, and there is no better representative of its once-lost riches than Cardinal and Servant of God Charles Journet. The Church of the Word Incarnate is Journet’s masterpiece, a fully Thomist ecclesi¬ology that spars with Cajetan, Bellarmine, Suárez, and the Salmanticenses as easily as it engages St. John Henry Newman, Vladimir Soloviev, Karl Barth, and Jacques Maritain. In this third volume, we are treated to Journet’s account of the body and soul of the Church, her unity and structure, and her formal requirements for membership. It is absolutely essential reading for the scholastic theologian interested in the Church’s treasures old and new.”
TRENT POMPLUN
University of Notre Dame
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