George Tyrrell as a representative of the modernist movement of the Catholic Church

Abstract

The article covers the evolution of George Tyrrell's concepts, who was a famous English modernist of the Catholic Church. The investigation of his works and those of other Catholic theologians through the lens of his biography clearly demonstrates how his devotion to the ideas of modernism and his fervent desire to reform the Catholic Church led him to excommunication, despite him being a Catholic priest, a member of the Jesuit order, and a seminary teacher. Being a persistent supporter of neo-Scholasticism in his early life, later George Tyrrell began to publicly rebuke the Pope and even deny the necessity of the Catholic Church as an institution, which, in turn, could only have caused a harsh reply from its side. The article also analyzes Tyrrell's contribution into Catholic modernism, which eventually resulted in the Vatican II.