These men saw the light:
Christopher Dawson,
Hilaire Belloc,
G.K. Chesterton,
John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Read them.
Please read them.
Know them.
See the light.
Begin to collect the books they wrote.
Lux lucet in tenebris!
N.B. And C.S. Lewis.
Don't forget Robert Hugh Benson!
ReplyDeleteRead them. Extensively. Chesterton, nowadays, I can take or leave; the constant, unrelenting paradoxing is usually clever in a smart-alecky kind of way, but I do wish he'd taken the trouble to master some other rhetorical techniques, if only to vary the colour a little. Belloc I value as a poet and a writer of children's verse. As an apololgist, he's a blustering bore.
ReplyDeleteCan't stand Newman.
JMJ
ReplyDeleteAlso Monsignor Ronald Knox!
The Belief of Catholics:
http://www.cin.org/liter/belief0.html
The Creed in Slow Motion:
http://www.cin.org/liter/knoxcreed0.html
Thank-you for your wonderful work!
Read forgotten Dawson!
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