Selected Writings

Selected Writings
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Catholic Writings of Orestes Brownson

The Catholic Writings of Orestes Brownson
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Christianity and politics
ISBN: 9780268104573

This collection presents Brownson's developed political theory, in which he devotes central attention to connecting Catholicism to American politics.

Brownson's Defence

Brownson's Defence
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1840
Genre: Christian socialism
ISBN:

The Convert

The Convert
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1889
Genre: Catholic converts
ISBN:

Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace

Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace
Author: Ángel Cortés
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319518771

This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources, including personal correspondence, journalistic essays, book reviews, and speeches, this work argues that religious sectarianism profoundly shaped participants in the religious marketplace. Brownson is emblematic of this dynamic because he changed his religious identity seven times over a quarter of a century. Throughout, Brownson waged a war of words opposing religious sectarianism. By the 1840s, however, a corrosive intellectual environment transformed Brownson into an arch religious sectarian. The book ends with a consideration of several explanations for Brownson’s religious mobility, emphasizing the goad of sectarianism as the most salient catalyst for change.

Catholic Converts

Catholic Converts
Author: Patrick Allitt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501720538

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.

Orestes a Brownson a Pilgrims Progress

Orestes a Brownson a Pilgrims Progress
Author: Arthur M Schlesinger
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343267131

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The Idol of Our Age

The Idol of Our Age
Author: Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641770171

This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for “social justice,” radical political change, and an increasingly fanatical egalitarianism. Christianity thus loses its transcendental reference points at the same time that it undermines balanced political judgment. Humanitarians, secular or religious, confuse peace with pacifism, equitable social arrangements with socialism, and moral judgment with utopianism and sentimentality. With a foreword by the distinguished political philosopher Pierre Manent, Mahoney’s book follows Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in affirming that Christianity is in no way reducible to a “humanitarian moral message.” In a pungent if respectful analysis, it demonstrates that Pope Francis has increasingly confused the Gospel with left-wing humanitarianism and egalitarianism that owes little to classical or Christian wisdom. It takes its bearings from a series of thinkers (Orestes Brownson, Aurel Kolnai, Vladimir Soloviev, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) who have been instructive critics of the “religion of humanity.” These thinkers were men of peace who rejected ideological pacifism and never confused Christianity with unthinking sentimentality. The book ends by affirming the power of reason, informed by revealed faith, to provide a humanizing alternative to utopian illusions and nihilistic despair.

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon

Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon
Author: Stewart Davenport
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1459605896

What did Protestants in America think about capitalism when capitalism was first something to be thought about? The Bible told antebellum Christians that they could not serve both God and mammon, but in the midst of the market revolution most of them simultaneously held on to their faith while working furiously to make a place for themselves in ...

The American Newness

The American Newness
Author: Irving Howe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780674182677

What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? Howe lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche.