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Spiritual Studies in England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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The circumstances of life in any country, its history and the racial characteristics of its people all influence, to a greater or a lesser degree, that country's literature, including its theology. The last twenty-five years have seen a change in the atmosphere in which English Catholicity in all its branches has to live, work and develop. Religious controversy still exists, but it is less important now than it was, let us say, fifty years ago. Catholic activity is increasing and there is a marked interest in all the problems relating to the spiritual life.
However, since the English character is essentially practical in its outlook, the study of spiritual theology—to include under that term both ascetical and mystical theology—tends to be mainly directed towards the practical problems of everyday life. The study of spirituality in England tends to restrict itself to the translation of the works of the great mystics, both at home and abroad, and to the divulgation or popularization of those doctrines which have most application to the Pr actice of religion.
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1 Summary of a paper read at the International Theological Congress, Salamanca, 4th may, 1954.
2 The English Mystics Serics. Orchard Books (Burns Oates, London).
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13 For example, articles in THE LIPB OF THE SPIRIT, Aug.-Sept., 1951: among others, ‘Aspects of the Chalice', by Dominic Baldwin and ‘Symbolism in the Byzantine Rite', by Irenc Marinoff.
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18 For example, We Live with our Eyes Open (Catholic Book Club, 1950).
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