The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer: From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, and After, by Louis Bouyer
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Louis Bouyer was a major figure in the Church of the last century. These memoirs, which Bouyer wrote in a humble and humorous vein--though without withholding his notoriously sharp pen when needed--allow the reader to enter with him into the great events that shook the Church and the world during the era of upheavals and transformations through which he lived. They amount to an intelligent, sensitive, and pious man’s fascinating chronicle and deep reflection on Christianity’s life and travails in a world committed to modernity. Bouyer here tells us the full and varied story of a life devoted to the discovery of the sources and Tradition of the Church in doctrine, spirituality, liturgy, and scripture.
We follow Bouyer’s journeys from his inherited Protestantism to the fullness of the Catholic Faith, from his position as a Lutheran pastor to the priesthood in the Oratory of France, from humble parish life to the Olympian heights of his official theological and liturgical collaboration (and difficulties) before and after the Council with such influential figures as Congar, Daniélou, de Lubac, Bugnini, and... Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI). Bouyer paints the lush landscape of a century’s illusions and disenchantments; his memoirs are essential for understanding the history of the Church during that momentous time.
“It would be impossible for anyone to speak knowledgeably about liturgical developments in the past 50 years without being cognizant of the work done by Louis Bouyer. His Memoirs, which feature his outspoken opinions and profound intelligence as well as a personality deeply imbued with the true spirit of the Catholic liturgy, can serve as a balance and perhaps an antidote to misinformation about the post-Vatican II developments in the Sacred Liturgy of the Latin Rite. A careful perusal of these Memoirs, now available in English in an excellent translation by John Pepino, also can serve as a corrective to the sometimes unbridled and euphoric optimism that marked liturgical studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I cannot recommend strongly enough the reading and study of this work.”--BISHOP (EMERITUS) FABIAN BRUSKEWITZ, Lincoln, NE
“While Father Louis Bouyer was a prolific author in many fields of theology, his most lasting legacy may well be his contribution to liturgical renewal, including his collaboration in the post-conciliar reform of the Roman rite. Bouyer is a sharp observer, and his retrospective is frank and at times caustic. Here is the authentic voice of a key witness to momentous developments in twentieth-century Catholicism. The publication of these important memoirs makes a real contribution to writing the history of the Church in our times.”--FR. UWE MICHAEL LANG, Cong. Orat.; Heythrop College, University of London
“Louis Bouyer was, according to his former student Cardinal Lustiger “the least conformist and yet among the most traditional” of theologians--a reality borne out in these memoirs, which reveal Bouyer sinking ever-deeper roots in Catholic tradition as well as his ever-present ability to look at matters with a fresh, critical eye. Expertly translated and edited with additional notes for English readers, The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer not only provides important historical details hitherto unpublished--particularly regarding the liturgical movement and post-conciliar reform--but also offers a lesson in the nature of living Catholic Tradition.”--DOM ALCUIN REID, Monastère Saint-Benoît, La Garde-Freinet, France
“Louis Bouyer in his Memoirs gives us a gripping, witty, firsthand account of a world of variously amiable and offensive people, revolving around the immense intellectual fermentations, social upheavals, and spiritual battles that preceded and succeeded the Second Vatican Council. No one serious about the Church’s contemporary history and the fate of her tradition can afford to be unacquainted with this book.”—PETER KWASNIEWSKI, Wyoming Catholic College
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From the Back Cover "It would be impossible for anyone to speak knowledgeably about liturgical developments in the past 50 years without being cognizant of the work done by Louis Bouyer. His Memoirs, which feature his outspoken opinions and profound intelligence as well as a personality deeply imbued with the true spirit of the Catholic liturgy, can serve as a balance and perhaps an antidote to misinformation about the post-Vatican II developments in the Sacred Liturgy of the Latin Rite. A careful perusal of these Memoirs, now available in English in an excellent translation by John Pepino, also can serve as a corrective to the sometimes unbridled and euphoric optimism that marked liturgical studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I cannot recommend strongly enough the reading and study of this work."--BISHOP (EMERITUS) FABIAN BRUSKEWITZ, Lincoln, NE "While Father Louis Bouyer was a prolific author in many fields of theology, his most lasting legacy may well be his contribution to liturgical renewal, including his collaboration in the post-conciliar reform of the Roman rite. Bouyer is a sharp observer, and his retrospective is frank and at times caustic. Here is the authentic voice of a key witness to momentous developments in twentieth-century Catholicism. The publication of these important memoirs makes a real contribution to writing the history of the Church in our times."--FR. UWE MICHAEL LANG, Cong. Orat.; Heythrop College, University of London "Louis Bouyer was, according to his former student Cardinal Lustiger, "the least conformist and yet among the most traditional" of theologians--a reality borne out in these memoirs, which reveal Bouyer sinking ever-deeper roots in Catholic tradition as well as his ever-present ability to look at matters with a fresh, critical eye. Expertly translated and edited with additional notes for English readers, The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer not only provides important historical details hitherto unpublished--particularly regarding the liturgical movement and post-conciliar reform--but also offers a lesson in the nature of living Catholic Tradition: one that Bouyer would insist that we learn, and learn well."--DOM ALCUIN REID, Monastère Saint-Benoît, La Garde-Freinet, France "In this work, Louis Bouyer describes the lectures of one of his teachers as dizzyingly brilliant, with unbridled asides coming fast and furious, leaving students enriched by his knowledge and broadened by his culture. The same could be said for these memoirs. My favorite 'aside' was Bouyer's description of Annibale Bugnini as 'a man as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty.' Bouyer's paths crossed with all the great names in 20th-century theology. These pages read like a literary Who's Who."--TRACEY ROWLAND, Dean of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute (Melbourne, Australia) "Louis Bouyer in his Memoirs gives us a gripping, witty, firsthand account of a world of variously amiable and offensive people, revolving around the immense intellectual fermentations, social upheavals, and spiritual battles that preceded and succeeded the Second Vatican Council. No one serious about the Church's contemporary history and the fate of her tradition can afford to be unacquainted with this book."--PETER KWASNIEWSKI, Wyoming Catholic College "The long-awaited English edition of the Memoirs of Fr. Louis Bouyer is now available thanks to Dr. John Pepino. The blunt French Oratorian theologian is both famous and little known, especially in his native country. Yet he was a reference for Joseph Ratzinger and for the founders of the review Communio, and his teachings have influenced many, particularly in the U.S. This work casts a new light on a major 'shadow theologian' before and after the Second Vatican Council. May the struggle of Louis Bouyer to spread the Gospel without sugar-coating it be an inspiration for the Church in this century."--LUC PERRIN, University of Strasbourg, France
About the Author LOUIS BOUYER (1913-2004) was born to a Parisian Protestant family on the eve of the First World War. A brilliant intellect, he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor at 23. His reflections on the Church and the liturgy led to his conversion to Catholicism in 1939; he was ordained a priest for the Oratory of France on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1944. He then devoted his life to meditating, teaching on three continents, and writing on the major themes of Christian theology: the Trinity, the Church, spirituality, scripture, etc.; his works have had an enduring impact on Catholic theology to this day. He also participated in the liturgical and ecumenical movements with an enthusiasm that turned into disappointment at the direction both movements soon took. His work and reputation led to his appointment to the preparatory phase of Vatican II as well as to the Consilium for the reform of the liturgical books of the Roman rite, where he collaborated in composing Eucharistic prayer II. His literary tastes and talent (he wrote four novels anonymously) allowed him to form deep and lasting friendships with such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and others, while his clear and courageous theological mind earned him the friendship of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Cardinal Heenan, and Paul VI--who wished to make Bouyer a bishop and later a cardinal. In retirement he lived in the Benedictine monastery of Saint Wandrille and would spend the feasts of the Assumption and Christmas among the Benedictine nuns in Jouques. He died in 2004, at the age of 89.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Bouyer is a master story-teller with insights into a whole cast of characters By Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski "J. Mart" has offered a review so utterly wide of the mark that the only plausible explanation is that he knows how valuable, dangerous, and gripping this book is and wishes, by means of "damning with faint praise," to discourage Catholics (and others) from reading it. Contrast his reaction with that of Dr. Francesca Murphy of Notre Dame, at the First Things blog:"I am reading The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer: From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, and After. The guy who translated this book deserves a medal. His translation matches up to Bouyer's lyricism. There's no taste of wood on your mouth as there is when you know the translator struggled and didn't manage to turn French into real, spoken English. Bouyer writes so beautifully about his childhood in Fin de Siècle Paris it almost makes up for not having lived there. The early chapters are like a cross between All of a Kind Family and Proust. He has some wonderful remarks about comedy and why pie throwing is deeper and more satisfying than witticisms. I am about a quarter of the way through and Bouyer has moved from solipsism to Christian faith by his experience of the French countryside as real, external, and, ultimately, an irradiation of the mind of God. Who could actually disagree? So far, Bouyer is now at the Protestant seminary in Paris, and is annoying a short and touchy professor by skipping his lectures to go and hear Gilson lecture on Thomas Aquinas in a garret at the Sorbonne. Along with half my friends, I just wish I could spend the whole week at home reading this book and not have to write a book of my own. I don't want to finish it because it's too enjoyable ever to end."When people like the great Bishop Bruskewitz, Fr. U. Michael Lang, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr. Tracey Rowland tell you that this book is dynamite, you'd be better off taking their word for it. Get a copy and enjoy.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Amazing translation! By Ana Braga-Henebry This review is less about the memoirs--as interesting as they are--and more about the English translation.I have lived for thirty years with English as a second language, my first language being also a Romance one. Translating has been, all these years, a constant activity for me, both in writing and in my mind. I have raised our children in a language I did not speak as a child, so I have had to re-imagine family stories in a new, English way. Furthermore, during my graduate studies I studied translation at the Center for Translation Studies at UTD. This is all to say that I can well value to quality of the translation this book offers.There is a modest, wonderful phrase towards the end of the Translator's preface: "... at bottom, ...[this translation] seeks to stay out of the way of the intimate bond of friendship ... that develops between the memorialist and his reader." Now, that is wonderful indeed. That is exactly the translator's quest: to bring to the reader the best version of the original, adding necessary explanations and staying "out of the way" of that author-reader relationship. We readers understand that relationship.I grew up reading literature that came to me mostly by translation, be it from English, French or Russian... sometimes others such as German or Polish. That is not the case with Americans. I see in my children's high school reading lists: there is virtually no translated works. Except for what our children have read that was proposed by their parents: Verne, Hugo, Tolstoy and the like, their reading assignments stopped short of continental Europe, the British Isles offering plenty of fodder for American readers without the need of a translator. One who grows up reading translated works learns to identify problems faced by translators early on. As a child I could already pinpoint translator's issues by reading the Laura Ingalls books! The translators were not the same from one published volume to the next, and I was fascinated by how differently they chose to describe details and events of the Western pioneer life in America, marred by brutal winters that were utterly foreign to Brazilian readers.Back to the Dr. Pepino's translation: I have been but once, and very briefly, to Paris, but was able to have a first hand glimpse of that world. The memoirs' first pages throw us right into that world, and the translator's notes help the curious, knowledgeable reader locate oneself with precision into the Paris map. Just as helpful are the brief notes about people and references that come up again and again. The translator knows well which ones will be foreign to the American reader. His bottom-of-page notes do exactly what the translator promises to do: to place us there in the author's literary landscape, at the same time "staying out of the way". He makes this difficult task seem easy.We readers are far removed from that world both in time and space, and Dr. Pepino's notes are so welcome to the reader. I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds of them, on the bottom of each page, making this probably them most annotated translation I have ever seen. Every obscure publication, work of art, musical composition, place, religious house... every reference is carefully placed, explained, geographically located or cross-referenced for the reader. How wonderful to have this wealth of explanatory notes when reading such an intricate story taking place in another continent!Add Pepino's beautiful choice of vocabulary and sentence structure, in a careful balance between keeping the French-flavor and making it unencumbered for the American reader. The text is a delight to read: the language flows easily and one is caught into the world the author is telling about. Again, this "disappearing" on the part of the translator is what makes it superior.I will stay here, saying what a pleasure it is to read an interesting autobiography of a man who lived to see first hand what many would like to have seen. A book translated and annotated so painstakingly and beautifully.
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Now that I've actually read the book... By Scott Woltze Note: My initial review was a response to the fact that the book was listed as "sold out". Now I'll offer some thoughts on the book.I repeatedly got the sense that Bouyer wrote the book largely for himself (and select friends) as opposed to setting a record for posterity. There's nothing wrong with that. He warmly dwells on countless old friends and memorable landscapes, and he seems unconcerned with offering a thematic narrative or trying to sustain any dramatic tension. So how is the book of interest to the general public? As others have mentioned, the early 20th century depictions of Paris and the French countryside bring that era to life, and you share in his sense of what is was like to be a child at that time. His tale of Lutheran seminary life with his little circle of friends is also charming.But the primary importance of the book lies in his testimony of what happened at the Council, and what he humorously calls the "After Council". His testimony has particular weight not just because he was an eye-witness/participant on key committees, but because he was disposed by temperament and worldview to favor a great "Aggiornamento", and yet was dismayed by the results.We read at the very beginning of the book that he was always possessed of a "happy brightness". In his friendships (as with institutions and religious communities) he values "openness", culture and good humor. He praises Pope John Paul VI as a "true liberal". Thus Bouyer could never be described as a reactionary or an anti-modern, and he even held a dim view of the place of Latin in the Church. And yet, he trenchantly criticizes the process and results of the reform of the calendar, the Divine Office, the mass and even conciliarism itself (he sides with Ratzinger and Gregory Nazianzen that "every assembly of bishops is to be avoided, for I have never experienced a happy ending to any council"). He describes the reformers of the calendar as a "trio of maniacs" who scattered "three-quarter of the saints higgledy-piggledy", and criticizes the new missal (which he helped craft) as having "unbelievable weaknesses". He saves his choicest criticisms for Bugnini, the main architect of the new missal: a "mealy-mouthed scoundrel...as bereft of culture as he was of basic honesty."As I was reading the book, I was hoping for a clearer understanding of the primary causes of the "After Council", especially since Bouyer often writes of the wise and good churchmen that he counts as friends. As a 42 year old, I've often wondered, What happened to Catholicism? What was in the water in the 60s and 70s that led to these revolutions? Bouyer often notes that those prelates (and even whole religious orders) who were most rigid and conformist before the Council, became the most drafty-minded during and after the council. Yet he doesn't really offer an explanation why. He does make clear that the movement for liturgical reform was compromised even in the early 50s. In any event, hopefully Bouyer's book will awaken more prelates and laymen to the fact that something went very wrong in the Church, and that the crisis is still ongoing.
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