Catholic Converts: British & American and 50 similar items

You are bidding on a paperback copy of Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome by Patrick Allitt. From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts-such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day-have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation. In excellent, like new condition, without any rips, tears or stains. Buy With Confidence- member since 2001 with excellent feedback I have a lot of great items listed, so be sure to check out my other items! Visit My Store: cuneoml's Fashion Finds. If you have any questions or need more pictures, please feel free to ask. I am happy to help. Be sure to add me to your favorites list! I add lots of new items on a frequent basis and all come from a smoke free home.