Vorlage:1955 Rezensionen Die letzten Dinge

• [1955-239] [Englisch] Raphael Appleby: Rezension zu: Guardini, Die letzten Dinge, engl., in: The Downside Review, 73, 1955, S. 276 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=lu_RNbWWy4oC
• [1955-240] [Englisch] Verlagsanzeige zu: Guardini, The Last Things, in: The Dublin Review, 229, 1955, ohne Seite - https://books.google.de/books?id=JsQhAAAAMAAJ oder https://books.google.de/books?id=zwAUAAAAIAAJ; auch in: The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 1955, S. 399 - https://books.google.de/books?id=NMCau_j_6h8C; auch in: The Month, 13, 1955, S. 194 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=bgvSbMP9Ra8C;
  • „Monsignor Guardini, professor of philosophy at the University of Munich and a prominent figure in the Church in Germany, is perhaps the best known abroad of German Catholic authors. Addressing himself to the contemporary mind, he here treats of the gravest of all issues that confront humanity: death and the hereafter.“
• [1955-241] [Englisch] Charles A. Hart: Rezension zu: Guardini, The Last Things, in: Catholic Educational Review, 53, 1955, S. 69 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=UsSgAAAAMAAJ
  • S. 69 f.: „Any work by Monsignor Romano Guardini is an event. The Last Things, Concerning Death, Purification after Death, Resurrection, Judgment, and Eternity, is no exception. Again he brings to bear upon this most important theme his rich scholarship in the fields of philosophy, theology, scripture, psychology, and history. As always he addresses himself to the perplexed contemporary mind with which he is so remarkably en rapport. Certainly that mind is much preoccupied with the multitude of threats against the very existence of our modern civilization as we know it, what with the terrifying progress in potentialities for destruction opened up by the parallel advance in all the sciences, social as well as physical and natural. Actually, of course, no man can entirely escape the influence of his "death" on his life as a whole, however much he finds it convenient to thrust that unpleasant reality into the lower depths of his unconscious. As always, Monsignor Guardini brings a remarkable freshness of view to old themes. Particularly, he appeals to the common sense reasonableness of the Church's doctrine. The divine teaching is the only obvious and inevitable position, given the nature of man and the world in which he works out his destiny. Most of all this is a man very much possessed of an earthly body. He is not an angel. A most important aspect of the Resurrection is its guarantee of the immortality of the human body as well as the soul. The whole human person is victor over death. Likewise in the Eucharist the body is not forgotten. „Because in man it is the living whole that matters, not the soul. The point of decision is the physical act of “eating” and “drinking" in contrast to any attempts at the vaporizing of this solid reality. The fruit of this sacred „eating“ and „drinking“ is the resurrection on the last day. Truly a „hard“ saying for it involves the end and purpose of the Christian life. The doctrine of the Eucharist is guaranteed by the doctrine of the resurrection.“ With the current interest in the philosophy of history, occasioned by the completion of Arnold Toynbee's monumental Study of History, the view of Guardini on the meaning of history in relation to the Last Judgment will have particular significance. "History's purport is to make God known. ... Three facts (then) mark the character of history: that it is obscure, that men are free to do wrong, and that evil may at times prevail over good. History can not, therefore, be its own fulfillment." It looks of its very nature to a Last Judgment. All men long for justice even though it means a calling out for what is against himself. It would be difficult to include within the compass of a small volume more profound, penetrating thought on a theme of surpassing importance than is presented by these pages from the pen of one of the Church's ablest apologists writing today. The translation excellently preserves the spirit of the original.“
• [1955-242] [Englisch] Jerome Palmer: Rezension zu: Guardini, Die letzten Dinge, engl., in: The American Benedictine Review, 6, 1955, S. 344 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=k2sWAAAAIAAJ
• [1955-243] [Englisch] Rezension zu Guardini, Last things (zusammen mit Pieper, The end of time), in: Social Order, 1955, S. 142 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=CkMfAQAAIAAJ:
  • S. 142: „Despite the similarity of title these two books have little in common. Guardini offers the reader a series of short meditations on death, purification after death, resurrection, judgment and eternity. These meditations put Catholic teaching on the last things into a form easily understood by the layman. Their chief value is their clarifying and systematizing the knowledge of these things that the average Catholic already possesses. The only item this reviewer thinks many Catholics do not understand at least in a general way is the resurrection of the whole man rather than just the soul. Guardini's treatment of the resurrection of the body and his handling of the mystery of the individual's union with God in eternity are especially good.“