Vorlage:1955 Rezensionen Der Herr

• [1955-000] [Englisch] Louis Arand: Rezension zu: Guardini, Der Herr, engl., in: The Priest, 1955 [Mercker 3047] - [Rezension] - [noch nicht online]
• [1955-000] [Französisch] Y. Desdouits: Rezension zu: Guardini, Der Herr, franz., in: Les cahiers de Neuily-sur-Seine, 16, 1955???, S. 46-53 [Mercker 3071] - [Rezension] - [noch nicht online]
• [1955-000] [Englisch] John J. Dougherty: Rezension zu: Guardini, Der Herr, engl., in: The catholic historical review, Washington, 41, 1955, 2 (1. Juli), S. 144-145 [Mercker 3063] - [Rezension] - [noch nicht online]
• [1955-000] [Englisch] Ignatius Hunt: The Lord (Rezension zu: Guardini, Der Herr, engl.), in: The American Benedictine Review, 6, 1955, S. 337f., zu Romano Guardini S. 338 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=k2sWAAAAIAAJ
• [1955-000] [Englisch] Augustine Rock: Rezension zu Guardini, The Lord, in: Integrity, 9, 1954/55, Februar 1955, S. 52 [neu aufgenommen] – [Artikel] - https://books.google.de/books?id=LU1roO-19qkC
  • S. 52: „This is not a scientific book; it does not call for a scientific review. Because the publishers have somewhat irresponsibly advertised it as "the most important single book yet published on the life and teachings of Christ," it is necessary to restore the book to focus before a fair review is possible. Msgr. Guardini himself describes what he has attempted: " The meditations that follow make no claim to completeness. They do not attempt to recount Jesus ' life in any chronological order or logical sequence; rather they select from it this or that teaching, event, trait, miracle for thought, as it happens to warm to life. This book is no scientific documentation of history or theology. Its chapters are the spiritual commentaries of some four years of Sunday services undertaken with the sole purpose of obeying as well as possible the Lord's command to proclaim Him, His message and works." Judging the book for what it is, a book of meditations, it was well worth translating and it was translated well. A book of meditations must be theologically reliable, and should be historically or factually reliable. It should also stimulate thought. Msgr. Guardini is a good theologian. He has written a number of solid and often penetrating books on subjects closely allied to theology. In this book he examines the gospels and ponders them with the mentality of a man at home with theology, and at the same time of a man at home with men. This book could only have been written by an elderly man for, as Msgr . Guardini himself says, "Youth does not comprehend the essence of humanity, whose ultimate crowning is old age: the fulfillment of all perseverance, season in which the heights and depths of human existence have been measured and all things brought to maturity." Lagrange, Prat, Lebreton and other learned exegetes have clarified for us the facts of the life of Christ. St. Thomas and learned Thomistic theologians after hime have focused clarified and defended the mystery that is Christ. Guardini is in competition with neither group. He has made good use of both to give us, not objective truth, but subjective impressions of objective truth. Because he has not departed from the truth as far as it can be known and has always remained in direct touch with objectivity, because also his mind has been long trained in wholesome habits of thought, his subjective reflections are able successfully to stimulate like reflections in the reader. Precisely because Christ is a mystery, nothing can be said about Him and endless things can be said about Him. In the beginning we can say nothing about Him because we know nothing about Him. For a long time we can say only foolish things, but if we study well and pray well the time may come when we shall discover that we have something of value to add to the endless collection of valuable and valid thoughts about Him Who, being divine, is essentially ineffable. Msgr. Guardini has contributed to the endless stream and his contribution manifests deep insight into the life and words of the Master which is expressed with fine sentiment but without sentimentality. The note which perhaps may be said to dominate these meditations is a profound awareness of the mission of Christ. Never does the author allow his readers to forget that Christ came to do the will of the Father, to lead men to the Father, to interpret the Father to men. Those who would distort theology by making it Christocentric will find no comfort in Guardini´s book to which what he says of the Apocalypse can be applied: „God dominates every move … but indirectly; He whom He sent forth, Christ, is the immediate impelling force." The book is made up of eighty-six chapters divided into seven sections. The sections and chapters roughly follow the chronology of Christ's life. The final part consists of meditations on the Apocalypse which will surely open the Book of Revelation for the first time to many readers. The design and printing are very effective. The price is not excessive to anyone aware of the high costs of book production. It is, however, unfortunate that no index was added. When an index is omitted from a non-fiction book it seems an admission by the publisher that the book is worth no more than a cursory reading. And that certainly is not true of this book.“
• [1955-000] E. A. Ryan: Rezension zu: Guardini, The Lord, in: Thought, 30, 1955, S. 310-312 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=aZdQAQAAIAAJ
• [1955-000] Heinrich Schlier: Zur Exegese und Theologie des Neuen Testamentes II (Rezension zu: Guardini, Der Herr), in: Die Welt der Bücher, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1, 1954/1958, 3 (Ostern 1955), S. 113-124, zu Romano Guardini S. 122 [Gerner 333] - [Rezension] - [noch nicht online]
• [1955-000] [Englisch] T. S. K. Scott-Craig: „Lives“ of Jesus and The Life of Jesus. A review of some recent lives of Christ, in: The Living Church, 130, 1955, 13. Februar, S. 16 ff. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=8GXkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA17; zu Romano Guardini:
  • S. 17: „Even more unforgettable, and infinitely more of a spiritual workout (or agony) for the reader, is Romano Guardini´s The Lord. The author, now a domestic or House Chaplain to the Pope, kept the attention of a very mixed audience during the bombing of Berlin with the meditations published in English as „The Faith and Modern Man.“ His translator, though born in Hawaii, was at that time the wife of a German diplomat; a convert to the Catholic and Christian Faith who (thanks be to God) escaped the holocaust, and having studied under both Guardini and Karl Adam, is long since in this country. She translates magnificently. Monsignor Guardini , like Archbishop Temple in his devotional commentary on St. John, is not greatly concerned . with Biblical criticism, nor on on the other hand with conventional Thomist theology. This is a series of meditations, written out of a profound experience of life and of the living Jesus; it transports us to the first century and at the same time transfixes us in our own century. …“