This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It compares ...individual and societal secularisation in France and England and examines how French and English Catholic writers understood and contested secular mores, ideologies and praxis, in the individual, societal and religious domains. It also addresses the extent to which some Catholic writers succumbed to the seduction of secular instincts, even paradoxically in themes which are considered to be emblematic of Catholic literature. The breadth of this book will make it a useful guide for students wishing to become familiar with a wide range of such writings in France and England during this period. It will also appeal to researchers interested in Catholic literary and intellectual history in France and England, theologians, philosophers and students of the sociology of religion.
This timely book places Brown's literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland, while identifying the special place Brown occupies as a Scottish Catholic writer.
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi ...(1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.
In a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue-but it doesn't always seem so. Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of power, while others ...dismiss it as mere political correctness or doubt that it can safeguard the moral and political relationships we value. Tolerance among the Virtues provides a vigorous defense of tolerance against its many critics and shows why the virtue of tolerance involves exercising judgment across a variety of different circumstances and relationships-not simply applying a prescribed set of rules.
Drawing inspiration from St. Paul, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, John Bowlin offers a nuanced inquiry into tolerance as a virtue. He explains why the advocates and debunkers of toleration have reached an impasse, and he suggests a new way forward by distinguishing the virtue of tolerance from its false look-alikes, and from its sibling, forbearance. Some acts of toleration are right and good, while others amount to indifference, complicity, or condescension. Some persons are able to draw these distinctions well and to act in accord with their better judgment. When we praise them as tolerant, we are commending them as virtuous. Bowlin explores what that commendation means.
Tolerance among the Virtues offers invaluable insights into how to live amid differences we cannot endorse-beliefs we consider false, actions we think are unjust, institutional arrangements we consider cruel or corrupt, and persons who embody what we oppose.
After the Reformation, England's Catholics were marginalised and excluded from using printed media for propagandist ends. Instead, they turned to oral media, such as ballads and stories, to plead ...their case and maintain contact with their community. Building on the growing interest in Catholic literature which has developed in early modern studies, Alison Shell examines the relationship between Catholicism and oral culture from the mid-sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In order to recover the textual traces of this minority culture, she expands canonical boundaries, looking at anecdotes, spells and popular verse alongside more conventionally literary material. In her archival research she uncovers many important manuscript sources. This book is an important contribution to the rediscovery of the writings and culture of the Catholic community and will be of great interest to scholars of early modern literature, history and theology.
Although not well-known in the English-speaking world, Fr. Ambroise
Gardeil, OP (1859-1931) was a Dominican of significant influence in
French Catholic thought at the turn of the 20th century.
...Conservative theologians like Frs. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP,
Michel Labourdette, OP, Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP and many others
hailed him as a careful expositor of the supernaturality of faith,
a defender of the theological nature of rational apologetics, and a
spiritual master. In his controversial Le Saulchoir: Une école
de théologie , Fr. Marie-Dominique Chenu, OP praised Fr.
Gardeil as an important Dominican initiator of reforms in
historical theology, presenting the latter as a kind of precursor
to one of the streams of what is now referred to historically as
the "Nouvelle Théologie." And one cannot read the words of Fr.
Gardeil's contemporary Fr. Antoine Lemonnyer, OP, without hearing
echoes and re-echoes of common cause regarding our lofty spiritual
vocation, resounding within the halls of the Saulchoir. With such a
broad appeal, it is no surprise that in private correspondence, a
young Yves Simon, writing to Jacques Maritain, referred to Fr.
Gardeil as "The Great Gardeil." The True Christian Life
provides a thorough and stirring introduction to Fr. Gardeil's work
in spiritual theology. The volume was originally published
posthumously through the collaboration of Fr. Gardeil's nephew, Fr.
Henri-Dominique Gardeil, OP and Jacques Maritain. Fr. Ambroise,
prior to beginning work on his masterpiece on spiritual experience,
La Structure de l'âme et l'expérience mystique , drafted
nearly eight-hundred pages that would have set forth a full
presentation of moral-ascetical theology. While drafting this
massive work, his reflection on the soul's receptive capacity for
grace led him to the two-volume study, La Structure, and he never
was able to finish his original designs for a comprehensive study
of the Christian moral-spiritual life. Soon after his death, his
nephew gathered several essays from the Revue thomiste and
Revue de Jeunes , along with a complete-but-unpublished
study on prayer. Drafting a lengthy introduction on the basis of
Fr. Ambroise's unpublished notes, Fr. Henri-Dominique assembled a
volume of moral / spiritual theology that sets out the principles
of many important themes: divinization through grace, Christian
prudence /conscience, the virtue of religion, devotion, and prayer.
In his In memoriam written after the passing of Fr. Gardeil, Fr.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange emphasized Fr. Gardeil's ability to
meditate on a given topic's central principles, like someone who
sees the highest peaks that give structure to the entire mountain
range of theology. In this volume, the reader will find a clear and
rhetorically striking presentation of the central mysteries of the
spiritual life, presented with stirring and beautiful rhetoric by a
theological master from the Thomist tradition.
Catholic writers have made a rich contribution to British fiction, despite their minority status. Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Muriel Spark are well-known examples, but there are many other ...significant novelists whose work has a Catholic aspect. This is the first book to survey the whole range of this material and examine whether valid generalizations can be made about it. In charting such fiction from its development in the Victorian period through to the work of contemporaries such as David Lodge, the author analyses its complex relationships with changes in British society and the international Church. There is more than one way of being a Catholic, as Woodman shows, but he also demosntrates that many of these writers share common themes and a distinctive perspective. They often wish in particular to use their religion as a weapon against what they portray as a complacent Protestant or secular society. Their consciousness of writing in the midst of such a society gives a special edge to their treatments of the perennial Catholic themes of suffering, sin and sex. It also has implications for literary form and relates to what has been seen as the extremist mode of Catholic fiction. The final question that Woodman puts is whether the changes in the Church since the Second Vatican Council must inevitably lead to the loss of this distinctive Catholic contribution to the novel.
In Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of
Temperance , Matthew Levering argues that Catholic ethics make
sense only in light of the biblical worldview that Jesus has
inaugurated the ...kingdom of God by pouring out his spirit. Jesus has
made it possible for us to know and obey God's law for human
flourishing as individuals and communities. He has reoriented our
lives toward the goal of beatific communion with him in charity,
which affects the exercise of the moral virtues that pertain to
human flourishing.
Without the context of the inaugurated kingdom, Catholic ethics
as traditionally conceived will seem like an effort to find a
middle ground between legalistic rigorism and relativistic laxism,
which is especially the case with the virtue of temperance, the
focus of Levering's book. After an opening chapter on the
eschatological/biblical character of Catholic ethics, the ensuing
chapters engage Aquinas's theology of temperance in the Summa
theologiae , which identifies and examines a number of virtues
associated with temperance. Levering demonstrates that the theology
of temperance is profoundly biblical, and that Aquinas's theology
of temperance relies for its intelligibility upon Christ's
inauguration of the kingdom of God as the graced fulfillment of our
created nature. The book develops new vistas for scholars and
students interested in moral theology.
How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic theology of ...marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played out: the family. Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep connections within the family and help families live out their calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that most Christians can live out their faith-and contribute to progress in the world.
Bis heute sind Baaders Schriften noch nicht in einer kritischen Ausgabe veröffentlicht worden. Das wird in dieser Franz Baader Edition als Editio princeps mit textkritischem Apparat, erklärenden ...Anmerkungen, Bibliographie, Personen- und Sachregister nachgeholt. Die Franz von Baader Edition versammelt die repräsentativsten und aufschlussreichsten Schriften des katholischen Theologen, Natur- und Sozietätsphilosophen Franz von Baader (1765-1841) in vier Bänden. Die hier ausgewählten mystischen und theosophischen Werke, welche aus der intensiven Beschäftigung Baaders mit Kirchenvätern, Mystikern und Theosophen wie etwa Jacob Böhme und dem Franzosen Louis Claude de Saint-Martin in München erwachsen sind, spiegeln Baaders Gedankenwelt in anschaulicher Weise wider. Insbesondere seine anthropologischen, ethischen und theosophischen Auffassungen werden darin erkennbar. Sie erhellen nicht nur die gegenwärtige, konstellationsgeschichtlich sehr überraschende Vielfalt von untergründigen europäischen Strömungen, sondern auch die wirkungsgeschichtlich bedeutsame, aber längst nicht erschöpfend erforschte Beziehung zu dem nach München übergesiedelten Schelling, dessen Philosophie in der Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Schriften Baaders eine entscheidende Hinwendung zum Christentum erfuhr.
