Wednesday, October 28, 2009

after reading Chesterton one doesn't even "need" Lewis anymore.


from Books & Culture:
In The Third Spring: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson & David Jones (CUA Press, 2005), Schwartz chronicles the spiritual journeys of four prominent Roman Catholic converts, seeing their rebellion in the context of their conversions to a mode of Catholicism he refers to as the "Italianate model": "hierarchical, focused on the papacy, and acutely conscious of its separation from the British mainstream." While the four figures were different in temperament and work, Schwartz studies in depth their common faith and their fight against modern, secular life.