Is there any good book on history of the heresy of Modernism?

Question

Is there any good book on the history of the heresy of Modernism (=synthesis of all heresies)? I am interested in how modernism came to be and how it survived St. Pius X attack on it. It would be good to have a detailed account.

Answer 1

This is a good introduction to the history and philosophy of Modernism:

• Dominique Bourmaud, One Hundred Years of Modernism: A History of Modernism, Aristotle to the Second Vatican Council (Kansas City, Mo.: Angelus Press, 2006).
  _{e-book en español: Cien años de Modernismo: Genealogia del Concilio Vaticano II}

History

• Emile Poulat, Histoire, dogme et critique dans la crise moderniste (Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1962).
  _{e-book in italiano: Storia, dogma, e critica nella crisi modernista}

• Romano Amerio, Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XX^th Century (Kansas City, MO: Sarto House, 1996).
  _{e-book en español: Iota Unum: Estudio sobre las transformaciones de la Iglesia Católica en el siglo XX}

• Alexander Roper Vidler, A Variety of Catholic Modernists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Doctrine

• Jean Baptiste Lemius and John Fitzpatrick, Catechism on Modernism According to the Encyclical “Pascendi Dominici Gregis” of His Holiness Pius X (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1908).
  _{Fr. Lemius is the presumed drafter of Pope St. Pius X's encyclical on Modernism, Pascendi.}

• Thomas Joseph Walshe, The Principles of Catholic Apologetics : A Study of Modernism Based Chiefly on the Lectures of Père Garrigou-Lagrange “De Revelatione per Ecclesiam Catholicam Proposita” Adapted and Re-Arranged (Eugene, Or.: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2009).

• Jürgen Mettepenningen, Nouvelle Théologie - New Theology: Inheritor of Modernism, Precursor of Vatican II (London; New York: T & T Clark, 2010).
  _{The "New Theology" is neo-Modernism; Pope Pius XII condemned it in his 1950 encyclical Humani Generis, subtitled: "concerning some false opinions threatening to undermine the foundations of Catholic doctrine." It's drafter is thought to have been Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P, ∵ he wrote "The structure of the encyclical Humani Generis." Cf. also: Greenstock, David L., T.O.P., "Thomism and the New Theology," The Thomist, 13 (1950), p. 567 & this quote from it re: theological conclusions.}

Key Magisterial Documents

• Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis & Syllabus of Errors, Lamentabili Sane (1907), Oath Against Modernism (1910)
• Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis (1950)