Sentences with phrase «von hildebrand»

Sophia's authors include St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Therese of Lisieux, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and many others.

The most notable of the early criticisms came from Alice von Hildebrand, widow of the great ethical thinker, Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Now, with this, I dare say, Schindler, von Hildebrand, and the rest of West's critics would readily concur: significant liberation from concupiscence can come with high levels of sanctity.

Dr von Hildebrand accused West of a lack of reverence - of vulgarity, even, of a dangerous naiveté regarding the reality of concupiscence, and of failing to discuss adequately the ascetic and spiritual work needed to attain holiness.

A professor and lecturer in her own right, Alice von Hildebrand has built upon her husband's work, especially in conjugal and gender issues.

Yet when one reads about von Hildebrand's fierce arguments with German Dominicans and others enthralled by the National Socialist «alternative» to Weimar, a shiver goes down the spine.

Reading the diaries of Dietrich von Hildebrand from the late 1920s and early 1930s, I was powerfully struck by how the disdain of continental European Christian intellectuals for the messy pluralism of liberal democracy made too many of those thinkers vulnerable to the siren songs of the monism proposed by German National Socialism and Italian fascism.

Four years later — the year of her retirement — Alice von Hildebrand was voted the top professor, out of eight hundred teachers, and a student body of 25,000.

In 1942, one of Alice's teachers at Manhattanville college, the German émigré Balduin Schwarz, encouraged her to attend a lecture by Dietrich von Hildebrand, then teaching at Fordham, who had also fled Hitler's Germany.

While Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is best known for promoting the work of her late husband, Dietrich — the eminent anti-Nazi philosopher who barely escaped death under Hitler — her personal story, as revealed in a new autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure, is very powerful in itself.

The Catholic philosopher Alice von Hildebrand suggests that «when piety dies out in women, society is threatened in its very fabric; for a woman's relationship to the sacred keeps the Church and society on an even keel, and when this link is severed, both are threatened by total moral chaos.»

Reared in the most privileged of circumstances in Florence and Munich, Dietrich von Hildebrand fled the Nazis in 1933, edited an anti «Nazi newspaper in Austria until the Anschluss, and finally arrived in America in 1940, where he taught philosophy at Fordham University for many years, writing numerous and widely appreciated books on philosophy, ethics, and Catholic thought.

Reading the recently translated memoirs of Dietrich von Hildebrand, «the Catholic Bonhoeffer» (of which more soon), I was interested to see how often he encountered Christian theologians who did not support him in his opposition against Hitler because they saw Nazism as the culmination of the historical process.

Of particular historical interest is von Hildebrand's intense and complicated relationship with such thinkers as Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl, his youthful in volvement with the family and cult of Richard Wagner, and his friendship with Eugenio Pacelli (Pius XII), whose adamant opposition to Nazism von Hildebrand greatly admired.

A new selection of the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand has both historical and contemporary significance.

In his foreword, Josef Cardinal Ratzinger calls von Hildebrand «a man whose life and work have left an indelible mark on the history of the Church in the twentieth century.»

Dietrich was born into a prominent and artistically - gifted family — son of the famous German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand — amid what he called «the superabundant love of my mother, and all of my five sisters.»

Dietrich von Hildebrand and Edith Stein: Husserl's Students by dr. alice von hildebrand roman catholic books, 52 pages, $ 5.90

Covering the political and cultural events of the 1920s and 30s, von Hildebrand's writings describe a society gradually turning from Judeo - Christian ideals and toward relativism and secularism.

At the heart of von Hildebrand's essays are three beliefs: the need for Christians to guard against evil; the willingness of believers to resist it; and the obligation of the Church to uphold the teachings of Christ, regardless of the situation.

Though America blessedly is not threatened by the totalitarianism against which von Hildebrand struggled, it faces its own dangers.

Racism and anti-Semitism were on the rise and struck von Hildebrand as particularly toxic.

When Dietrich von Hildebrand died in 1977, his passing went largely unnoticed.

To Bertele's astonishment, writes Alice von Hildebrand in her fine joint biography of the two, «the boy jumped up in his pajamas, stretched out his little hand, and said to her solemnly: «Bertele, I swear to you that Christ is God!

The drama recounted in From Enemy to Brother revolves around the courageous witness of figures such as Johannes Oesterreicher, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Karl Thieme, Gertrud Luckner, and Annie Kraus.

Biblical references and quotes from recent writers including von Hildebrand, Nouwen and Rahner, abound.

My further efforts to put the article in context, however, yielded one succinct observation by Dietrich von Hildebrand quoted in Pope John's Council by Michael Davies: «The innovators would replace holy intimacy with Christ by an unbecoming familiarity.

Our friends at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project have announced a prepublication offer for the special spring 2013 issue of Quaestiones Disputatae dedicated to von Hildebrand's work.

The Legacy Project aims not just to «promote» Hildebrandian ideas but above all to encourage a truly philosophical reception of his work — which is to say, a reception which does not dwell primarily on items of purely scholarly concern but which weighs von Hildebrand's theses, arguments, and formulations with the central question of philosophy, «Is it true?»

Among them will be the Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas on «An Ontology of Love: A Patristic Reading of Dietrich von Hildebrand's The Nature of Love»; philosopher Josef Seifert on «Dietrich von Hildebrand on Benevolence in Love and Friendship»; and literary scholar Brian Sudlow (author of Catholic Literature and Secularization in France and England 1880 - 1914) on «The Non-Violence of Love: A Hildebrand - Girard Encounter.»

Now that the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project has been founded with a view to republishing the works of this great thinker and in some cases translating them from German for the first time, it is worth recalling who Dietrich von Hildebrand was.

Meanwhile the U.S. enjoyed the presence of a distinguished group of Catholic immigrants, including Jacques Maritain, Czesław Miłosz, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Henri Nouwen, René Girard, John Lukacs, Padraic and Mary Colum, José Garcia Villa, Alfred Döblin, Sigrid Undset, and Marshall McLuhan.

The dangers pointed out by Alice von Hildebrand are not imaginary, and are to some degree anticipated in my article.

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The Catholic moralist Dietrich von Hildebrand sketched in Liturgy and Personality a portrait of the liturgically formed person, the person who takes the liturgy seriously, who does not corrupt it for reasons of self - improvement, self - advancement or any other secondary gains, yet who reflects secondarily the shaping power of the liturgy on character.

Leading Catholics whose writings had done so much to influence the Council» men like Yves Congar and Henri de Lubac, Louis Bouyer and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jacques Maritain and Dietrich von Hildebrand» sounded the alarm.

As von Hildebrand stressed:

I find myself deeply sympathetic with Dietrich von Hildebrand.

John F. Crosby is professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and co-founder of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project.