The Reform of Zeal: François de Sales and Militant French Catholicism

Despite the fact that Edwards never authored an extended or thorough commentary on political and economic matters, we can detect his assumptions and the general shape of his political and economic commentary scattered throughout his moral treatises, biblical commentary, miscellaneous observations, and sermons. A devoted subject of the Hanoverian monarchy, he presumed that Britain’s empire was the most laudable political system in the Atlantic world. Among other virtues, it served as a hedge against French Catholicism. He interpreted the meaning of that empire through Whig political agendas, which included a robust endorsement of Britain’s transatlantic commercial empire. Yet Edwards’s theological agendas often devalued political and commercial loyalties into contingent goods, subject to critique. He held that theological virtues had the power to minimize national identities in favour of worldwide Christian communion and universal benevolence.

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Missionary Formation and French Catholicism

Fathers on the Frontier ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372335.003.0001 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 23-56

Author(s):

Michael Pasquier

Keyword(s):

French Catholicism

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French Catholicism in North America

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America ◽

10.4324/9781315022703-15 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 26-27

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

French Catholicism

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Waldemar Gurian: Witness of the Twentieth Century

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500012948 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 73-79

Author(s):

Hans Kohn

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

The United States ◽

First World War ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Social Transformations ◽

The First World War ◽

French Catholicism ◽

Second World ◽

First World

Personal and historical fate put Waldemar Gurian in his short but full and fulfilled life into the center of the vortex of the twentieth century. Born in Russia, educated in Germany, deeply familiar with France, he witnessed the intellectual, moral and social transformations produced by the First World War in the principal countries of continental Europe. While he was still in his twenties and early thirties, he wrote a number of outstanding books analyzing these transformations and probing their core with an understanding deepened by the ability and opportunity of comparing them, of seeing the wealth of their differences and yet the essential similarity of the mental and moral climate out of which they grew. He wrote penetrating studies about Russian Bolshevism and German nationalism, about the political and social ideas of French Catholicism and about the integral nationalism in France. The changing mental and moral climate in continental Europe which Gurian observed after the First World War was one of the principal causes of the Second World War. Its approach caused Gurian to leave continental Europe for the United States. Here began the second and in many ways more fruitful period of his life. Not many immigrants of the troubled thirties had so much to give to their new fatherland in the breadth and objectivity of their understanding of the Old World and in the humaneness and liberality of their personality; few, indeed, put their whole life and soul into untiring constructive activity as he did in Notre Dame, which afforded him the generous opportunity, an activity which helped to prepare American scholarship and public opinion to meet with a better understanding the new responsibilities in the wake of the Second World War.

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