The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian by Aidan Nichols PDF

By Aidan Nichols

ISBN-10: 0718892747

ISBN-13: 9780718892746

This biography of Adrian Fortescue offers an insightful examine a guy, now perceived as an icon of Catholic traditionalism, dealing with a trouble of judgment of right and wrong over his association with Liberal Catholicism and objections in the direction of the highbrow conservatism of the papacy. The Latin Clerk therefore unearths a fascinating discord in Edwardian tradition among theological doctrine and secular advancements, and in addition displays common tensions current in the Roman Catholic Church of this day, making the internal conflics of Fortescue pertinent to fashionable society. not just will this booklet be of curiosity to historians and theologians, however it also will entice scholars of the jap church buildings. via a presentation of Fortescue's vast paintings as an Orientalist and Liturgist, the reader may well discover the riches of the traditional jap church buildings, the Greek Fathers, and the heritage of the liturgy.

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10 ‘Constantinople, The Rite of ’, art. , p. B. Rebours, Traité de psaltique. Théorie et pratique du chant dans l’Eglise grecque (Paris: Picard, 1906). 11 The Uniate Eastern Churches (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1923), p. 230. indd 44 17/08/2011 11:16:15 The Levantine Grand Tour (1906–7) and The Greek Fathers 45 In early June he did justice to Galilee. He rode up Mount Carmel by donkey, over-nighting on the summit; and went on donkey-back again to the Fountain of Elijah. At Acco he stayed with the Franciscans, the official Latin ‘custodians’ of the Holy Places, and took the opportunity to swim in the Mediterranean.

P. Holliday, Edward Johnston, Master Calligrapher (London: British Library Publishing, 2007). In 1912, Johnston would follow his friend Eric Gill, who shared his passion for lettering, to the Sussex village of Ditchling where Gill co-founded the ‘Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic’ for Catholic craftsmen, but though he stayed in the village until his death, he never made an approach to the Church: ‘Johnston’s wife Greta was coldly anti-Catholic and Johnston himself was perhaps a creature too solitary by temperament for organized religion’, F.

And was executed as an apostate from Islam. His disciple Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri founded Baha’ism in 1863. 30 Westminster Diocesan Archives, Series 20, Box 22, Letter of 5 March, 1903. 31 Westminster Diocesan Archives, Series 20, Box 22, Letter of 20 September, 1902. 32 Westminster Diocesan Archives, Series 20, Box 22, Letter of 5 March, 1903. indd 35 17/08/2011 11:16:14 36 The Latin Clerk Otherwise the Ongar interlude was chiefly dominated by the start of preparations for the Innsbruck doctorate, which entailed satisfying the examiners in Hebrew and Arabic as well as Church history and canon law.

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