Vorlage:1961 Rezensionen Die Macht

• [1961-000] [Englisch]: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and responsibility, in: The Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin, 57, 1960/61, 15 (June 1961), S. 632 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=EjNVAAAAYAAJ
  • [1962-000a] [Englisch]: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and responsibility, in: Book Review Digest, 58, 1962/63, S. 491 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=gkUOAQAAMAAJ
  • 1960, S. 632/1962, S. 491 (Auszug ohne Schlusssatz): „A domestic prelate of the Roman Catholic Church chooses one of several possible interpretations of the word power: namely, modern man's control over the physical universe, and relates it to man's apparent failure to use this power for good. Though the idea is a familiar one it has been developed in a new and challenging way, free of theological and sectarian restraints. The final chapter offers a practical course in personal ethics for today's complex world.“
• [1961-000] [Englisch] Sister Alma Maria: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: Jubilee, 9, 1961, S. 43 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=RCDZYYQL3gMC
  • S. 43: „Power and Responsibility by Romano Guardini (Regnery, $ 3.00), is a timely study, apparently designed to inspire thinkers to become doers. Today, Msgr. Guardini points out, many men see in the nuclear bomb a climax, a nihilistic finale to their own creation. But, even should man escape a global catastrophe, he still will have to struggle to preserve his humanity as his power over his fellow men continues to grow. What is needed, he says, is a balance between power and responsibility. Starting with the premise that God created man in His image to rule the world and gave him the ability as well as the mission to do it, the author goes on to suggest ways in which men may work toward achieving that delicate balance. Msgr. Guardini holds that man's power is in his initiative , his purposeful energy, and he has written this study "not to present programs or panaceas, but to free the initiative for fruitful action.“
• [1961-000] [Englisch] Richard Armstrong: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: America, 105, 1961, 8. April, S. 109 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=BK0SYDvqgIcC
• [1961-000] [Englisch] Clifford M. Drury: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: The Christian Century, 78, 1961, 13. September, S. 1082 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=KolNAk11LCIC
  • [1962-000a] [Englisch]: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and responsibility (Auszug), in: Book Review Digest, 58, 1962/63, S. 491 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=gkUOAQAAMAAJ
  • S. 1082 f.: „WIDELY KNOWN in Europe as a lecturer and author, Romano Guardini is also a professor at the University of Munich. In this timely and stimulating book he deals with the great dilemma confronting man how to master the power he has discovered before being destroyed by it. Exploring the connection between man and power, Guardini traces it back to the Garden of Eden; he sees the essence of the first temptation as involving the right or wrong exercise of power given by God. His main emphasis is that if man forsakes his religious and ethical moorings, he places himself at the mercy of power: "Nothing corrupts purity of character and the lofty qualities of the soul more than power." Today's tragedy is that while man is gaining more and more power, at the same time he is "removing himself farther and farther from the norms which spring from the truth of being and from the demands of goodness and holiness." In his concluding chapter, "Possibilities of Action," Guardini argues that the only solution is to call man "to accept the full measure of responsibility," and to this end schools, universities and the church must work together. Before man can control power he must first control himself. The author commends a new asceticism as a step in self-mastery, an asceticism which is "the refusal to capitulate,“ the determination to fight the forces of barbarism „at the key bastion – namely in ourselves.“ The author´s honorific use of the term „asceticism“ is understandable in view of the fact that he writes as a devout Roman Catholic. In any case, his book comes with a message for all Christians." (letzter Satz in 1962, S. 491)
• [1961-000] [Englisch]: Samuel Hazo: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: Commonweal, 75, 1961, D 8, S. 573 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=Okw8AAAAMAAJ
  • S. 573: „This small book offers no blueprint or outline for the responsible use of power. It is rather a meditation on the central meaning of power, its place in the nature of man, its link to God's sovereignty. On many counts Monsignor Guardini stands opposed to well-known contemporary theorists of history as well as to some of the most influential Christian “realists" of the day.“
• [1961-000] [Englisch] W. Charles Heiser: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: Library Journal, 86, , 1961, 1. Mai 1961, S. 1780 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=uTxVAAAAYAAJ oder https://books.google.de/books?id=XBJPAAAAIAAJ:
  • [1962-000a] [Englisch]: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and responsibility, in: Book Review Digest, 58, 1962/63, S. 491 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=gkUOAQAAMAAJ
  • 1961, S. 1780/1962, 491: „The translation of any of Msgr. Guardini's works is a welcome event. Although it was written in 1951, this study of the basic need of our age, responsible control of power, is even more timely now than it was 10 years ago. It analyzes with profound insight the strong points and the weaknesses of modern civilization and outlines the way to prepare for the future in an atomic age. Thoroughly grounded in Sacred Scripture, judiciously tempering a basic optimism with a realistic view of man's frailty and malice, this work proves again that Msgr. Guardini is one of the truly wise men of our times. For reflective reading by the serious-minded of all creeds.“
• [1961-000] [Englisch] D. Bernard Theall: Msgr. Guardini Dissects Power and Responsibility

(Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and responsibility), in: The Catholic Standard and Times, 66, 1961, 28 (31. März 1961) [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://www.thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=cst19610331-01.2.131&srpos=20&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Guardini-------

• [1961-000] [Englisch] G. Wills: Rezension zu: Guardini, Power and Responsibility, in: National Review, 11, 1961, S. 61 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=q6mluc870zgC oder https://books.google.de/books?id=-dNY1gIMPc0C
  • S. 61: „Limiting the meaning of "power" to the reasoned direction of force, Guardini laments the subversion of the individual's private energies in the anonymous, collectivist, total organization of modern society. The preliminary analysis is excellent. But midway in his meditations, Guardini begins nervously to disown the dark vision he has called up. In tired cliché, he argues that all ages seem periods of decline to those who live through them. Thus having modulated into the modern key, he predicts that the age of diffused and disguised responsibility will call up an entirely "new man," answering the challenge of impersonal system with the assertion of his own power. By some pseudo-Darwinian dynamics, man will suffer an his- torical transformation. But this age - which is supposed to be the cause of a new man's assertiveness - is itself only the expression of the new man's failure, the symptom of man grown submissive, rejecting responsibility, huddled in crowds and plastic to a totalist politics.“