The
Rod, the Root and the Flower
Coventry Patmore
Foreword by Stratford Caldecott
254
pages
Paperback
ISBN: 13: 978-1621380368
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JUST A YEAR before his death, these essays and aphorisms were the final flowering
of Coventry Patmore’s extraordinary vision.
The writers of the 19th-century Catholic Literary Revival, of whom Patmore was
an outstanding representative, were in search of the whole of reality, and awoke
a renewed appreciation of the importance of symbols as a vehicle of metaphysical
and doctrinal truth. Christianity, writes Patmore, is “yet in its infancy,
though it seems, as it has always seemed to contemporaries, to be in its decay.”
And, as Stratford Caldecott indicates in his Foreword to this volume, he looks
ahead to something like a “New Dispensation” of Christianity, in
which the “real apprehension” of the truths of faith will be opened
to the millions: “Many of these truths concern the relation between man
and woman, and here [Patmore] anticipates in many respects the Theology of the
Body of Pope John Paul II—a theology grounded in the Trinity, and based
on the analogies between the love of the soul for God, the love of God for mankind,
and the love between man and woman.”
The transfiguring power of love, both human and divine, is the theme that runs
right through The Rod, the Root and the Flower. Herbert Read compared it to
Pascal’s Pensées, and Caldecott adds that “here we see a
fullness of Catholic wisdom that is not exceeded by any other representative
of the Revival, and one that speaks to our age as much as it did to his own,
opening vistas within the Word of God that remain incompletely explored even
today.”
Roman Catholic apologetics, theology, philo-sophy, political and social thought, spirituality, history, art, biography, and literature
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Mental
Disorders and Spiritual Healing
Teachings from the Early Christian East
The
Quantum Enigma
Finding the Hidden Key
Cosmos
& Transcendence
Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity
St. Thomas Aquinas - G. K. Chesterton
All
Things Made New
The Mysteries of the World in Christ
Theistic
Evolution
The Teilhardian Heresy
Science
& Myth
With a Response to Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design
The Religious Poetry of Vladimir Solovyov
Renaissance and Reformation Times
The Book of the Ancient Romans
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World
Beauty
in the Word
Rethinking the Foundations of Education
Behold
the Heritage
Foundations of Education in the Dominican Tradition
Glastonbury
The Novel of Christian England
The
Common Mind
Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk
Ancient
Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
A Critique of Contemporary Scientism
The
Power of Four
Keys to the Hidden Treasures of the Gospels
The
Tumbler of God
Chesterton as Mystic
The
Radiance of Being
Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity
The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine
The Rod, the Root and the Flower
Touches
of Sweet Harmony
Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics
Liberty
or Equality:
The Challenge of Our Time
The
Way to Our Heavenly Father
A Contemplative Telling of the Lord’s Prayer
Not
As the World Gives
The Way of Creative Justice
Through,
With, and In Him
The Prayer Life of Jesus and How to Make it Our Own
Our
Way and Our Life
Christ in His Mysteries
Christ,
the Life of the Soul
Blessed Columba Marmion
With
Christ
Blessed Columba Marmion
We
and Our Children
How to Make a Catholic Home
Social Theories of the Middle Ages
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