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Dom John Chapman's Spiritual Letters
I. ‘A Rounded Theological Theory of the World.’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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It is cruel to analyse a favourite spiritual book: ‘Philosophy will clip an angels wings’. Nevertheless last summer I tried the experiment on boot Chapman's spiritual letters. I had long been dissatisfied with Dom Roger Hudleston's presentation. He arranged the letters according correspondents, distinguished by quaint anonymous titles—‘To one living in the world’, ‘To a literary man’; he separated the letters to ‘lay folk from those to religious, and he put last of all the ‘Letters to a Jesuit’ which in fact, begin first. As a result the reader, having to jump backwards and forwards in time, is reminded of Eyeless in Gaza.
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1 The Spiritual Letters of Dom John Chapman, O.S.B. 2nd edition, 1935. My references are to this edition (reprinted 1954).
2 Dom Christopher Butler's essary on Dom John Chapman in English Spiritual Writers, edited by Charles Davis, London, 1961, needs of course no commendation.
3 p. 204.
4 p. 202.
5 ibid. and p. 236.
6 p. 204.
7 p. 236.
8 p. 205.
9 p. 235.
10 Denzinger-Bannwart 1789.
11 p. 239.
12 p. 206
13 Anyone who wishes to pursue this subject is recommended to read the following articles by two scholastic philosophers :J. Maritain in Angelicum, 1937, pp. 281-295, and C. Fabro in the Rivista della Filosofia Neoscolastica, 1938, pp. 132-149. There is a good article on ‘Contineenza’ in the Encyclopedia Filosofica I, col. 1213 by C. Carbonara.
14 S.T.I.14.13.
15 S.T.I.22.4.
16 p. 205.
17 p. 206.
18 ibid.
19 p. 211.
20 p. 211.
21 p. 209.
22 p. 208.
23 p. 208.
24 Dom John's sense of contingency remained strong. Cf. Letter X, p. 51 (1923): 'My habitual feeling is that the world is so extremely odd, and everthing in it so surprising. Why should there be green grass and liquid water, and why have I got hands and feet?'
25 Honest to God, by John A. T. Robinson.
26 pp. 215-219, and 226-228.
27 p. 219.
28 p. 220.
29 p. 223.
30 p. 222.
31 Le Milieu Divin, English translation by Bernard Wall, London, 1960, PP. 59-73.
32 Le Milieu Divin, p. 65.
33 Le Milieu Divin, pp. 60-61.
34 Op. cit. p. 73.
35 Quoted by P. Grenet in L'Ami du Clergé, 15.12.62, p. 676.
36 Chapman, p. 223.
37 Ibid. p. 224.
38 Ibid. pp. 225-226.
39 p. 229. Cf. Butler, op. cit., p. 186.
40 p. 230.
41 p. 233.
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