The Art of Retrieval and the Science of History, or How to Think <i>Ressourcement</i> Historically

Abstract This article takes up Peter Hünermann’s treatment of historicist thinking and its potential to help, in the words of Bernard Lonergan, “get history into theology.” It does so as a way to avoid both a withdrawal from thick ressourcement and a “new ressourcement” that, in its zeal to find common cause with Thomism, sees historicist thought as a danger to the preservation of theological truth.