Vorlage:1953 Rezensionen Vom Sinn der Kirche

• [1953-099] [Englisch] J. E. P. Butler: Integral Catholicism (Rezension zu: Guardini, The Church and the Catholic and The Spirit of the Liturgy), in: Integrity, 8, 1953, S. 45 f. [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=oEcw1JBYmj4C
  • S. 45 f.: „This is a reprint of two small books bound together. The first is an eloquent plea for a Catholic community as opposed to religious isolation, the second an equally eloquent exposition of the Liturgy as the communal worship of the Church. The titles of these works are unusually apt. The Church and The Catholic is a clear and loving explanation of what the Church means to the Catholic, and the Catholic to the Church - the development and enrichment of personality in communion with the Church, and the flowering of the Church in the perfection, individual and social, of its members. The Spirit of The Liturgy is not a detailed description of the corpus of the Liturgy but a penetrating study of its essential meaning. Of corrective value to contemporary activism is the final chapter on "The Primacy of the Logos over the Ethos." Altogether this is a small book but it is not fractional. It is a concentrated expression of integral Catholicism. Those who know Father Guardini will be glad that he is being kept in print. Those who do not should begin with this book. Father Guardini exemplifies excellently that richness and depth which is the distinguishing mark of German religious writing. „Religion“, he says, „needs civilization.“ Father Guardini has it, and the North American Church could use it. We have our own glories. The European does not ignore them. Nor does he ignore his own scandals. But we cannot live much longer on the innocence of adolescence. Either we learn the virtue of maturity or perish.“