Brother Thomas Merton
I always find it strange that Catholics possess mixed feelings about Thomas Merton. For me, he was an absolute genius. Brilliant and a man of almost impeccable integrity. Of all of his writings, this–Time and Liturgy–is one of my favorites.
Source: Thomas Merton, “Time and Liturgy,” WORSHIP 31 (December 1956): 2-10.
Dawson, “New Decline and Fall,” COMMONWEAL 15 (1932), 370-372.
Dawson, “The Significance of Bolshevism,” ENGLISH REVIEW (September 1932): 239-250.
Dawson, review of MEIN KAMPF, THE TABLET (March 25, 1939), 373-374.
Dawson, “The New Community,” THE TABLET (1939). Multiple piece article.
Dawson, “The Papacy and the New Order,” 421 (April 1942): 109-115.
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Dawson, “Parties, Politics, and Peace,” THE CATHOLIC MIND (June 1945): 370-372.
Dawson, review of Niebuhr, THE DUBLIN REVIEW 224 (1952): 64-68.
In the late 1920s, T.S. Eliot asked Christopher Dawson to write a small book on the meaning of family in the western and Christian tradition. The two would come to collaborate frequently, but this was the first thing that brought them together. A great little book. Enjoy.
And, by popular request–the missing pages. My apologies, but I don’t have the original 1930 version. I took these from Dawson’s 1933 book, ENQUIRIES INTO RELIGION AND CULTURE (New York: Sheed and Ward).
Certainly one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read. More finished it only days before his own death.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn regarded Berdyaev as possibly the greatest anti-communist thinker to come out of Revolutionary Russia.
Here, translated, is a piece he wrote on anti-Semitism. Fascinating.
Not well known in the U.S., Marcel was one of the foremost Christian Humanists of 20th-century Europe. This article, in particular, influenced Russell Kirk. So much so that Kirk hoped to co-author a book with Marcel.
Source: Gabriel Marcel, “The Concept of Spiritual Heritage,” CONFLUENCE 2 (September 1953): 3-15.
Source: Waldemar Gurian, “Europe and the United Sates: An Open Letter to Etienne Gilson,” COMMONWEAL 53 (December 15, 1950), 250-251.
Source: Peter Wust, “The Necessity of Metaphysics,” COLOSSEUM 1 (June 1934): 14-18.
Image of Irving Babbitt by Michael Hogue, borrowed from THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.
Seven articles in pdf format. Enjoy!
Source: T.S. Eliot, ESSAYS ANCIENT AND MODERN (Faber and Faber, 1936).
Source: Austin Warren, “The ‘New Humanism’ Twenty Years After,” MODERN AGE 3 (Winter 1958-1959): 81-86.
Source: G.R. Elliott, “Irving Babbitt as I Knew Him,” AMERICAN REVIEW 8 (1936-1937): 36-60.
Source: W.F. Giese, “Irving Babbitt, Undergraduate,” THE AMERICAN REVIEW 6 (1935-1936): 65-94.
Source: G.R. Elliott, “The Religious Dissension of Babbitt and More,” AMERICAN REVIEW 9 (1937): 252-265.
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Source: C. Hartley Grattan, ed, THE CRITIQUE OF HUMANISM: A SYMPOSIUM (New York: Brewer and Warren, 1930), 39-60.
Source: G.R. Elliott, “More’s Christology,” AMERICAN REVIEW 9 (1937): 35-46.
Source: Jacob Zeitlin, ed., “Stuart P. Sherman and Paul Elmer More,” THE BOOKMAN (September 1929): 43-53.
Many regard this as Paul Elmer More’s most important essay. Certainly, it is the article that inspired the “moral imagination” of Irving Babbitt, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, and Winston Elliott.
Source: Paul Elmer More, Aristocracy and Justice (Boston, 1915).
Originally published in March 1930, “A Revival of Humanism”–a fascinating critique of More’s best friend, Irving Babbitt, appeared in More, On Being Human (Princeton University Press, 1936), 1-24.
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