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Pure Love, Pure Poetry, Pure Prayer
By the time of his death in 1933 Henri Bremond, priest and member of the elite Academie francaise, had established himself in France, and increasingly in England and the United States, as a distinguished historian of Christian spirituality and as a Catholic modernist who helped to shake the church out of its dogmatic slumbers by embracing "pure love," artistic-poetic expression, and mystical prayer as the privileged manifestations of spiritual truth. Drawing on substantial new scholarship in France, that has resuscitated and reinterpreted Bremond's work for our own times, and that sees Bremond as an important precursor of current trends in literary interpretation as well as spirituality, Gorday surveys the entirety of Bremond's corpus of writing, setting his work in its context of his personal struggles, as well as the wider setting of French historical and cultural development.
Sir Thomas More
Originally published in 1913, (22 years before St. Thomas More's canonization), Henri Br�mond details the humor, wisdom and holiness of this great saint. With More's execution, so went "merry old England", and the author, a Jesuit priest himself, paints a true portrait of Thomas More, a man forever faithful to his conscience.Have a "Look Inside".
Critics on Trial
Through a study of the participants, Marvin O'Connell traces the emergence of Modernism and the controversies related to it, offers a careful examination of the movement's multiple causes and ramifications, and places the events within the political, social, and intellectual context of the time.
The Mystery of Newman
THIS is, in some ways, a difficult book, and yet a book which cannot, in the interests of Newman or religion, be neglected by anyone who realizes the importance of either one or the other. The difficulty does not arise from the style, which is remarkably clear and entertaining even in the translation. It arises from a certain inconsistency from which the author suffers in consequence of a conscientious fear of bias. He began the study of Newman (as is evident) with an undiscriminating enthusiasm. He then became critical. "Having passed through the first period of enchantment," he tells us, "in which the eyes are still covered with the veil of uncritical admiration, I began to read the Oxford...
Entretiens sur Henri Bremond
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