Completely reset text;
archival quality paper and
binding; new introduction;
CIP data; new index.
6x9, approx. 225 pages
Hardcover.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934182-12-3
$55.00
Romano Guardini
New introduction by Louis Dupré
Penned by Romano Guardini (1885-1968), one of the
most profoundly insightful minds of the 20th century, this
unique text—first published in English in 1960 but
unavailable since, until now—is a meditative unfolding of
a defining moment in the history of Western civilization. A
professor religion and theology at the University of
Munich, as well as a religious humanist, and an
accomplished man of letters, Guardini wrote numerous
influential works in several fields. This book is no
exception to the Guardini rule: lucid explication of ideas
and events central to the creation of Western culture.
“The merit of Guardini’s beautiful book,” writes Louis
Dupré in his introduction (itself an invaluable, succinct
unfolding of Guardini's, and Augustine’s, achievement),
“consists in having restated Augustine’s eternal insight in
the light and darkness of contemporary existence.”
This title is, therefore, an unequaled aid for educators,
students, and general readers wishing to understand the
perennial issues embodied in the conversion from
paganism to Christianity of the last Father of the Church,
who was also the first medieval.