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Alfred Loisy and Maude Petre shared hopes in a renewed Catholicism that would bring it into a positive relationship with modernity. Each of them had to come to terms with a dark side of modernity that emerged with the Great War. Loisy’s Guerre et religion and Petre’s Reflections of a Non-Combatant preserve a record of their struggles to preserve their faith in modernity and humanity. In a second edition of Guerre et religion Loisy engaged Petre’s reflections, in particular where they bore upon the future of religion. Loisy continued his reflections on the war with Mors et Vita and on the religious future of humanity in La religion (1917) and in La paix des nations et la religion de l’avenir (1919).
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Talar, C.J.T. (2015). Alfred Loisy and the Great War. In: Talar, C.J.T., Barmann, L.F. (eds) Roman Catholic Modernists Confront the Great War. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527363_2
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