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"I HAVE PASSED THROUGH A PERIOD OF RELIGIOUS CRISIS, I HAVE THOUGHT MUCH ON RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS, AND I OFFER HERE MY PERSONAL REACTION TO THAT CRISIS"First edition of M.D. Petre's autobiography, a philosophical memoir of the Modernist Crisis in the early twentieth-century Church. Uncommon.Maude Dominica Petre was born into an old Catholic Recusant family (a family member went on to found the Cisapline Club). Petre was embroiled in the Modernist movement and her compassionate portraits of Friedrich von Hügel, Henri Bremond and Alfred Loisy, and especially George Tyrrell are definitive. Part I. Childhood and Early Religious Training, Part II. Youth and Middle Life, Part III. Process of Religious Belief, Part IV. Modernism, Part V. Three Friendships, Part VI. Before, During, and Since the Great War, Part VII. The Final Quest. The publisher echoed Petre's modern stance in the design for the book. settling on a bold, unapologetic dust jacket with a sans-serif type face, unusual for the Art Deco era.… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Early American edition. Octavo, original red paper boards over black cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket nearly-so. "TO ME, MOTHER TERESA REPRESENTS, ESSENTIALLY, LOVE IN ACTION, WHICH IS SURELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT"Early American edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's lovely tribute to Mother Teresa. Based on the BBC documentary on her life and work, this project proved to be pivotal in Muggeridge's own personal journey from atheistic communism to Catholicism and the impetus for his eventual conversion. Muggeridge's account generated controversy over his assertion of the miracle of the "Divine Light" in the House of the Dying but "the portrait of a believing woman by a nonbeliever brought Mother Teresa international acclaim and attention." (James Martin, My Life with the Saints). Beautifully illustrated with 24 lovely black-and-white photographs (many double-page), by S. K. Dutt of Camera Press London. Consists of several sections:… Read More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Octavo, original purple cloth over lavender boards, original dust jacket. Upper right corner bumped. About-fine. "AS MY WHIMSICAL LORD TAKES ME" First Macmillan edition of these "simple, powerful reflections on the human condition in the scientific age," a splendid introduction to the mind of Dorothy L. Sayers. A jack-of-all-trades with the pen, Sayers produced a steady output of drama, poetry, essays, crime novels, and, of course, her studies and translation of Dante. But, as a committed Anglican, her lasting contribution among these efforts may well have been the value of her Christian perspective. Originally published in 1969 as "Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World," this title was part of the Macmillan series that also reprinted collections of C. S. Lewis, J. B. Phillips and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. With a Foreword by William Griffin of Macmillan: "If there was one word to describe Sayers' view of Christianity, it would be 'whimsy.'"… Read More