Review of George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism

This collection of strong contributions to Roman Catholic modernism studies originated from a laudable desire to commemorate George Tyrrell, a so-called modernist and former member of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, on the centenary of his death. Oliver Rafferty\u27s chapter I historically contextualizes what follows. The book\u27s centerpiece is Clara Ginther\u27s superb essay on Tyrrell\u27s seminal article, The Relation of Theology to Devotion (1899). Ginther smartly shows how this article gives his corpus coherence. Anthony Maher\u27s equally superb essay on Tyrrell\u27s ecclesiology flows from his understanding of devotion as rooted in religious experience, which, in Tyrrell\u27s case, was grounded in his Ignatian spirituality and Christology. For Tyrrell, religious experience is what primarily authorizes, a view that coheres with Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman\u27s view of authority: It is, first of all, internal. Out of