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Anti-Christ and the Antidote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2024

E. R. Gilchrist
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When the old pagan civilization in the West went down with Imperial Rome there was one institution which, surviving the general decline, gathered together the fragments from the wreckage and incorporating the new elements rebuilt again more solidly, more splendidly than before the edifice of Western civilisation. So intimate was the union between that institution and the new civilization in the West that we may call Christianity the soul of Christendom, for Europe is the Faith and the Faith is Europe.

Till about the beginning of the 16th century the Christian revelation and ideology were accepted universally even when their precepts were not always adhered to. Though disagreement and conflict might arise between Prince and Pope, the basic principles on which society reposed remained unchallenged. But after the decline of the later Middle Ages revolution came, a reaction set in.

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Research Article
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Blackfriars , Volume 19 , Issue 219 , June 1938 , pp. 428 - 435
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Copyright © 1938 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 That does not mean, as Mr. Belloc himself has explained, that the Faith is not for all men. It is simply a statement of fact not of doctrine. The Faith grew up in Europe forming Christendom. What has been can never have not been. A Europe whose soul was not Christianity would not bp the Europe we know.

2 Luther, Descartes, Rousseau, vide Maritain's Three Reformers.

3 That is why in many milieux to-day it has become an altruism that the world is faced with only two alternatives, Communism or Fascism.

4 “The Myth of the 20th Century (A. Rosenberg) is a myth of blood which unchains under the sign of the swastika the racist world revolution. “

5 “In Hitler alone is our salvation” (Nazi banner in Vienna).

6 cf. The Modern Dilemma, by C. Dawson, p. 95.

7 The Modern Dilemma, pp. 97-98.

8 Ibid, pp. 98-99.

9 F. Shed, in a review of City of God.

10 Captain Robert McGuire at the Birmingham Catholic Reunion.

11 loc. cit.

12 Ibid.