Schillebeeckx's views on some of his fellow Dominicans

"There are some even among us Dominicans whom I would want to call theological obscurantists.

"They are brute beasts who call down anathemas on things of which they do not have the slightest idea, such people murdered Socrates, drove Plato out of Athens and intrigued to murder Aristotle.

"Albert the Great Schillebeeckx had found a fellow figure with whom he could closely identify."

An extract from John Bowden's Edward Schillebeeckx: Portrait of a Theologian.

Belgian Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx was born in Antwerp in 1914. He spent the war years as a Dominican student in Belgium.

Schillebeeckx drafted many of the interventions for the Dutch bishops at the Second Vatican Council. He repeatedly ran into trouble with the 

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for his theological writings.

He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1982, and the only theologian ever to be awarded the Gouden Ganzenveer in 1989.

Edward Schillebeeckx died in 2009.