Search Results: Modernism from Star of the Sea Books

Washington, D. C.: Cistercian Publications/Consortium Press, 1972. First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. Small "St. Jos Abbey" price-sticker to bottom of front flap. Slight fading to edges of near-fine cloth, minor creasing and tears to spine ends of dust jacket. A near fine copy. "THE CONTEMPLATIVE ATTITUDE IS ONE OF OPENESS TO THE TRANSCENDENT" First edition collecting papers exploring the dual monastic aims of contemplation and community. Presented at the Third Cistercian Symposium at the Abbey of Notre Dame du Lac in the summer of 1971. The twelve contributions (by Cistercian, Benedictine, and Dominican participants) reflected a multi-disciplinary approach balancing perennial themes such as Scripture, Monastic Community and Monastic Tradition, Liturgy, and Theology together with modern academic perspectives integrating Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. The "concrete" purpose of the symposium was stated this way: "I am a Cistercian. I live in community. I am… Read More

Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE FIRST MODERN POPE"First edition of this first biography, by an American Marianist brother, of the first modern Pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait. Gioacchino Pecci was in poor health when he was elected in 1878 but he would serve for 25 years as Pope Leo XIII. "Leo made two extremely important and lasting contributions to modern Catholicism through two landmark encyclicals--Aeternis Patris, prescribing and promoting the study of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, 1879, and Rerum Novarum, the first encyclical ever published on social questions like just wage and the right of workers to organize, 1891. No documents from the era illustrate more clearly the new role of teacher the papacy had now assumed. They are symptomatic of the strong emergence of the… Read More

"THE REVERBERATION, EVEN AT THE OBLIQUE TOUCH OF A FINGERNAIL, OF THE GREAT CATHOLIC BELL"
True first edition of Conor Cruise O'Brien's first book—written under the pseudonym Donat O'Donnell—not published in England until 1954.
O'Donnell acknowledges in the short Preface that "many great writers have tried to answer the question whether imaginative literature can be Catholic." This question is at the center of O'Donnell's collection of critical essays sifting the "patterns" among a disparate group of eight writers bound primarily by their Roman Catholicism: Mauriac, Bernanos, Greene, O'Faoláin, Waugh, Péguy, Claudel, and Bloy. Each author is introduced with a brief bio-bibliography: I. Francois Mauriac, II. The Faust of Georges Bernanos, III. Graham Greene: The Anatomy of Pity, IV. The Parnellism of Seán O'Faoláin, V. The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh, VI. The Temple of Memory: Péguy, VII. The Rhinegold of Paul Claudel, VIII. The Paradise of Léon Bloy, IX. Maria Cross.
O'Donnell begins and ends… Read More

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1908. First edition. Very Good. Octavo, original brown cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. Minor spotting to spine, gilt bright, gentle wear to corners and spine ends, moderate soiling to top edge of text block. Very good indeed. "THE MODERNIST CONTROVERSY" First edition of this collection of essays on the Modernist controversy by Canon Alfred Leslie Lilley, with the author's epistle dedicatory to "to my dear friend and fellow countryman George Tyrrell." In the aftermath of Pius X's syllabus Lamentabili and encyclical Pascendi, the Irish-born Lilley waded into the debate over Modernism in the defense of his fellow modernists Loisy and Tyrrell. "Lilley's "interests in the demands of the modern world on the traditional theological presentation of the Christian message drew him into the group of Anglican modernisers. With so much in common with modernists in the Roman Catholic Church it is not surprising to find Lilley to be a close friend of Baron Friedrich… Read More

London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine."CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like Lord Acton, had a private income and an inexhaustible intellectual appetite for Catholic theology and history" (Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts). His mentoring and wide associations meant that he was swept up in the Modernist controversies that resulted in the excommunication of Alfred Loisy and George Tyrrell. With frontispiece portrait, dated 1903, and Foreword by Bishop B. C. Butler, who credits von Hugel with his own conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. With Whelan's Preface, dated "All Saint's Day, 1970," extensive Notes and a substantial Bibliography of works by and about von Hugel. De licentia… Read More