Vorlage:1962 Rezensionen Die Macht

• [1962-000] [Englisch] Alan Geyer: Guardini´s view of power (Rezension zu Guardini, Power and Responsibility), in: Worldview, 5, 1962, S. 10 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=jQDWAAAAMAAJ
• [1962-000] [Englisch] J. W. Heikkinen: Analysis of Power (Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility), in: The Lutheran, 44-45???, 1962, S. 29 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Artikel] - https://books.google.de/books?id=e4GhsW00ancC
  • S. 29 f.: „Romano Guardini, an Italian by birth (1885), came to Germany as a youth and has become a major cultural force in German life during the past decades. A professor-priest, he is an author of numerous essays and books on religious-cultural problems, and is the founder of the German Catholic Youth movement. He is known and highly respected in America through his earlier book, The Faith and Modern Man. Guardini's study of the problem of power embraces both a philosophical and a theological analysis of the meaning of power in relation to the actualities which confront the modern man in this power-age. The argument runs: Power is the ability to move reality. An idea, alone, cannot do this, but integrated with the experiences of human life in its development and tensions an idea becomes a power. Power signifies the presence of energy to change reality as well as to direct it to chosen goals. Human power for which no one is answerable simply does not exist. Man has sought to assume power for himself over against the will of his Creator (Genesis 2). The power of the Christian is in his humility in Christ who humbled himself and became a servant and was obedient unto death (Philippians 2). Guardini is deeply sensitive tot he spritual situation of the modern man who confronts an increasing measure of scientific and technical power. The existence of man today is marked by a new thing: power or dominion in what might be called the "acute" sense of the word, that is, a kind of a matter-of-factness which concentrates on things at hand regardless of personal feeling, an unwillingness to display emotion, and a growing indifference to people. We need to recover: the contemplative attitude, the depths of our being, and the essence of things. How can men control the growing monstrosities of power when they cannot control their own appetites? We must decide whether we are going to realize the requirements of rule in freedom or in slavery, is Guardini's final word. This book is a superb essay, exceptional in its quality of reasoning and language. There are alternatives for the philosophic and the theological analyses of power. Per- haps Guardini's argumentation is too rational and serene to square with the realities of the spiritual power struggle of our time.“