Louvain, Belgium, and Beyond: Studies in Religious History in Honour of Leo Kenis

The scholarship of Leo Kenis has been characterised by methodological

rigour and a broad-ranging interest in the history of church, theology

and religion in the 19th and the 20th centuries. His most valued

contributions concern the history of the Louvain Faculty of Theology,

the crises of Modernism and Nouvelle theologie, the Second

Vatican Council and the post-conciliar transformations of the Catholic

Church in Belgium and Western Europe.

This volume collects twenty-five contributions from Louvain and

international colleagues working in the same field of expertise, who are

all familiar with the research of Leo Kenis. Four domains of his

expertise are addressed in this volume: the history of the (Ancient)

Louvain Faculty of Theology, the Modernist Crisis, the history of

religious orders abroad and at home, and the preparation and

implementation of the Second Vatican Council. These contributions honour

and extend the research of Leo Kenis as a Louvain scholar in religious

history.