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In Church of the Ever Greater God, Aaron Pidel offers the first major English-language study of the ecclesiology of Erich Przywara, S.J., one of the most important Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. As Pidel shows, Przywara’s idea of analogia entis, or analogy of being, shaped his view of ecclesiology. According to this theory, every creature is made of various tensions or polarities in its being. Creatures flourish when these tensions are in equilibrium but transgress their creaturely limits when they absolutize one polarity over the other. Pidel demonstrates how Przywara used the concept of analogia entis to describe the structure and rhythm of the Catholic Church. In Przywara’s view, the Church, too, is essentially constituted by her tensions or polarities, and the members of the Church conform to that analogical tension to varying degrees of fidelity. Przywara claims that analogia entis not only describes the Church as she is but also can be used as a criterion for discerning the spiritual health of the Church by helping her to see where her equilibrium has become imbalanced. Pidel maintains that Przywara thought that the biggest risk to the Church’s analogical equilibrium in the last century was a de-emphasis of the typically Ignatian ideas of reverence for the Divine Majesty and missionary extraversion. Przywara’s vision of the Church is presented as a corrective to this one-sided imbalance. In drawing attention to Przywara’s metaphysically informed and deeply Ignatian ecclesiology, Pidel’s study will appeal not only to scholars of Przywara but also to all those who study ecclesiology and Catholic theology more broadly.


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Church of the Ever Greater God
CHURCH OF THE EVER GREATER GOD

The Ecclesiology of Erich Przywara
AARON PIDEL, S.J.
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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To my father, Jeff, and my mother, Mary, who taught me both how to love and to fear the Lord
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction to Erich Przywara
CHAPTER 1
Analogia Entis as Creaturely Metaphysics: Structure, Rhythm, Middle
CHAPTER 2
Analogia Entis and the Problem of Religion
CHAPTER 3
The Ignatian “Type”
CHAPTER 4
Ecclesial Discretion
CHAPTER 5
Apocalyptic Ressourcement and Nuptial Ecclesiology
CHAPTER 6
Przywara’s Kirche in Gegensätzen Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would naturally have been impossible without the help and mentorship of many people, at least some of whom should be named here. The first debt of gratitude goes to John Betz, whose interest in Przywara sparked my own and who directed my dissertation on Przywara’s ecclesiology. Likewise serving on the board of my dissertation and providing invaluable encouragement and insight were Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P., Peter Casarella, and Cyril O’Regan. I should also thank friends of mine from the University of Notre Dame—especially Michael Rubbelke and Mike Altenburger—who read individual chapters and provided constructive criticism and encouragement. For the way all the aforementioned assisted me in refining my thought, I am most grateful.
I would be equally remiss, however, if I neglected to thank the Society of Jesus both corporately and individually. The fact that Erich Przywara was a fellow Jesuit and an unabashed lover of the Ignatian charism was among the principal factors that drew me to study him. My Jesuit superiors over the years, moreover, have given me leisure to do the studies without which this project would have been impossible. I thank them for their confidence in me, which, from time to time, I have been tempted to think misplaced. I would like to thank the many individual Jesuits with whom I lived at Henri de Lubac House, who, more than any others, endured my obsessive tendency to “talk through” the difficulties and intricacies of Przywara’s analogia entis : Brian Dunkle, Brian Daley, Phil Ganir, Stephanus Hendrianto, Michael Magree, John Peck, and Joseph Riordan.
Finally, I would like to thank all those who helped me render this manuscript into a book. This includes the team at the University of Notre Dame, especially the anonymous reviewers and Stephen Little, who did much to “demystify” my first experience of book-length publication. It also includes my colleagues at Marquette University, especially Kenny Hoyt and Cecille Medina-Maldonado.
All the aforementioned deserve a great deal of praise for what is good in Church of the Ever Greater God . The only thing for which I can accept entire credit is the book’s remaining infelicities.
ABBREVIATIONS
This work has used standard abbreviations for frequently cited authors or frequently abbreviated titles. For economy, it has included separate sections on Augustinian, Dionysian, and Jesuit sources.
A UGUSTINE
All works of Augustine have been cited according to the Latin text and abbreviation system employed by the Corpus Augustinianum Gissense ( CAG ). Electronic edition. Edited by Cornelius Mayer.
Ciu. De civitate Dei
Conf. Confessiones
En. Ps. Enarrationes in Psalmos
Gn. litt. De Genesi ad litteram
Io. eu. tract. In Johannis evangelium tractatus
Perseu. De dono perseuerantiae
S. Sermones
Sol. Soliloquiorum libri duo
Vera rel. De vera religione
D IONYSIUS THE A REOPAGITE
The Greek text and English translation of the writings of Dionysius have been taken from the following:
Corpus Dionysiacum , vol. 1: Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. De divinis nominibus . Edited by B. R. Suchla. Patristische Texte und Studien 33. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1990.

Corpus Dionysiacum , vol. 2: De coelesti hierarchia . De ecclesiastica hierarchia. De mystica theologia. Epistulae. Edited by Günter Heil and Adolf Martin Ritter. Patristische Texte und Studien 36. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1991.
Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works . Translated by Colm Lubheid. Foreword, notes, and translation collaboration by Paul Rorem. Preface by René Roques. Introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan, Jean Leclercq, and Karlfried Froehlich. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist, 1987.
The individual works are cited, whether in Greek or English, by the abbreviations employed in Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works .
CH The Celestial Hierarchy
DN The Divine Names
EH The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
MT The Mystical Theology
J ESUIT S OURCES
Because Przywara often cites his Jesuit sources according to the pagination of the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu but not according to the titles of Ignatius’s writings or the referencing conventions standard for each work, this work cites according to both.
Cons . Constitutions of the Society of Jesus . Spanish text in MI III, 2. English translation with paragraph numbers: The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus and Their Complementary Norms . Translated by George Ganss, S. J., et al. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1996.
MI I Monumenta Ignatiana: Epistolae et Instructiones S. Ignatii . 12 vols. Madrid, 1903–11.
MI III Monumenta Ignatiana : Sancti Ignatii Constitutiones Societatis Iesu . 4 vols. Rome, 1934–38, 1948.
MI IV Monumenta Ignatiana : Scripta de Sancto Ignatio. 2 vols. Madrid: 1904, 1918.

Sp. Diary Spanish text from MI III, 1. Paragraph numbers from Diario Espiritual , in Obras completas de San Ignacio de Loyola , transcription, introduction, and notes by Ignacio Iparraguirre, S. J., 318–86. Madrid: B. A. C., 1963.
Sp. Ex. Spiritual Exercises English: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Preface by Avery Dulles, S. J. Translated by Louis J. Puhl, S. J. New York: Vintage, 2000. Spanish: Candido de Dalmases, S. J., ed., Ejercicios espirituales , in Obras completas de San Ignacio de Loyola , transcription, introduction, and notes by Ignacio Iparraguirre, S. J., 196–285. Madrid: B. A. C., 1963.
O THER S OURCES
AA Apostolicam Actuositatem: Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (1965). https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis
ADPSJ Archiv der Deutschen Provinz der Gesellschaft Jesu, Munich.
ARSI GS Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesus, Germania Superior, Rome.
DEC Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils . 2 vols. Edited by Giuseppe Alberigo, translated by Norman Tanner, S. J. New York: Sheed & Ward and Georgetown University Press, 1990.
DH Denzinger, Heinrich. Compendium of Creeds, Definitions and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals . 43rd ed. Revised, enlarged, and in collaboration with Helmut Holping. Edited by Peter Hünnerman for the original bilingual edition; edited by Robert Fastiggi and Anne Englund Nash for the English edition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012.

DSp Dictionnaire de Spiritualité . 16 vols. Paris: Beauchesne, 1937–94.
DTC Dictionnaire de la Théologie Catholique . 33 vols. Edited by A. Vacant and E. Mangenot. Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1909–72.
EG Evangelii Gaudium : Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World . https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
GS Gaudium et Spes : Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965). https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
LG Lumen Gentium : Dogmatic Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965). https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
LThK 2 Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche . 2nd ed. 10 vols. Edited by Josef Höfer and Karl Rahner. Freiburg: Herder, 1957–67.
LThK 3 Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche . 3rd ed. 11 vols. Edited by Walter Kasper. Freiburg: Herder, 1993–2001.
Mansi Sacrorum Concilorum nova et amplissima collectio. 53 vols. Edited by L. Petit and J.-B. Martin. Arnhem-Leipzig: Hubert Welter, 1901–27.
MC Mystici Corporis Christi (1943). Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XII on the Mystical Body of Christ. https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
MD Mediator Dei (1947). Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XII on the Liturgy. https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
Met. Aristotle, Metaphysics. In The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited with introduction by Richard McKeon, translated by W. D. Ross, 682–926. New York: Random House, 1941.
NRSV Bible, New Revised Standard Version
Pascendi Pascendi dominici gregis (1907): Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius X on the Doctrines of the Modernists . https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .

PL Patrologia Latina . Edited by J. P. Migne. Paris, 1844–55.
RGG 2 Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart . 2nd ed. 6 vols. Edited by Hermann Gunkel. Tübingen: Mohr-Siehbeck, 1927–31.
SA Sacrorum antistitum (1910). Motu proprio Pii PP. X quo quaedam statuuntur leges ad modernismi periculum propulsandum . Available at the Vatican website.
ST Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologiae (“Blackfriars” ed.). 61 vols. Various translators. London and New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode and McGraw-Hill, 1963–80.
StZ Stimmen der Zeit
UUS Ut unum sint (1995). Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II on Commitment to Ecumenism . https://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html .
WA Luther, Martin. Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (Weimarer Ausgabe) .

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