The influx of modern Scripture studies into the Catholic Church in many ways resembled the influx of Aristotelianism in the 13th century. In both instances, the Church encountered a form that was laden with presuppositions and interpretations inimical to the Catholic Faith. Historical-critical exegesis had been practiced by liberal Protestants steeped in the rationalism of the Enlightenment, joined with various currents of German philosophy, long before Catholics began to make their own contribution. Nature, many liberal Protestants assumed, follows the unalterable course of its laws.
Miracles are, therefore, impossible.
Jesus cannot have wrought those reported in the Gospels. Nor can he have been the Son of God. Nor can his death have been salvific. Religion is not revealed, but arises from the depths of the human heart. Dogmas can not, therefore, claim any permanent validity.