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Blackfriars, Volume 19 - January 1938

Contents

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Correspondence

  • Baron von Hugel

  • Norbert Drewitt, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 61-62
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  • Sir,—Baron von Hugel was not a professional theologian. He was devoted to the philosophy of religion and to theology because he was a Christian and a Catholic, but he was profoundly more than a theologian because he was an integral Catholic.

    To ask whether he was centrally Catholic and to examine his theological credentials alone is not enough. A religious personality can be psychologically heterodox under a number of aspects, of which the two more important are the theological and spiritual. A man can be theologically immaculate and spiritually lop-sided, in which case he is not centrally, i.e., integrally, Christian. I do not intend to add the slick correlative that a man may be spiritually impregnable and theologically nebulous, because both speculation and history prove that this is not true. But a mind which is mistaken on single propositions in a time of crisis may most emphatically possess spiritual grandeur of an outstanding kind. Moreover, even the greatest Saints are not normally without sin and moral wavering until after the biographers have plastered up the chinks, and some of the noblest religious personalities in history have value for us precisely because of their bearing in face of their own moral contractions and mistakes. Baron von Hugel is for some the greatest example of this that our age has known, and his spiritual message would carry infinitely less meaning for us were there none of these contractions and subsequent gigantic renunciations of his life. Von Hugel’s soul is first and foremost a synthesis of opposed moral forces: a neurotic, violent, easily jarred character constantly transformed and driven into massive unity by divine love.

Theology and the Christian Life

Reviews

  • Mary's Part in Our Redemption. By Canon George D. SmithPh.D., D.D. (Burns, Oates; 6s.)

  • Ambrose Farrell, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 305-307
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Faith and Practice

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  • The Three Ways of the Spiritual Life. By R. Garrigou-LagrangeO.P. (Burns Oates; 3s. 6d.)

  • Ambrose Farrell, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 615-617
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Catholic Action

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Correspondence

  • Penguin Replies

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    25 October 2024, pp. 372-374
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Theology and Religion

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  • Introduction to Ascetical and Mystical. Theology. By Archbishop GoodierS. J. (Burns, Oates; 7s. 6d.)

  • Ambrose Farrell, O.P.
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    24 October 2024, pp. 859-861
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Other

  • Extracts and Comments

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    25 October 2024, pp. 212-219
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Theology and Religion

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  • Grace and Nature. By A. G. Hebert. (Church Literature Association; 1s.)

  • Victor White, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 143-144
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Theology

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Theology and Religion

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  • Von Christlicher Ehrenhaftigkeit, von Dr. Richard Egenter. (Kösel und Pustet, München; RM. 3.20.)

  • "X.", O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 219-221
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Correspondence

  • Out of Mind, Out of Sight

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    25 October 2024, pp. 374-376
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Theology and Religion

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  • Union of Christendom. Edited by Kenneth Mackenzie. (S.P.C.K.; 8s. 6d.)

  • Vincent McNabb, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 457-458
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Philosophy

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  • Critical Realism. By G. Dawes Hicks. (Macmillan, 15s.)

  • Quentin Johnston, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, p. 541
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Correspondence

  • “Workers’ Ownership”

  • Gerard R. B. Sheldon
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    25 October 2024, pp. 62-63
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Faith and Practice

Rewiews

Theology and the Christian Life

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  • St. John of the Cross. By Bede Frost. (Hodder & Stoughton; 18s.)

  • Gervase Mathew, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 307-309
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Theology and Religion

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  • Presence Mariale. François CharmotS. J. (Editions Spes; 12 12 frs.)

  • Finbar Synnott, O.P.
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    25 October 2024, pp. 694-695
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