Tag Archives: Romanticism

Romanticism and Modernism

Posted on Friday, 10 October, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Someone sent me a link to this most illuminating article. Owen Barfield’s Critical Semantics: Diagnosing Modernity in History in English Words I make my living by translating texts, substituting concepts in French by equivalent English ones, using the most appropriate … Continue reading →

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Theologically Modernist, Liturgically Traditionalist

Posted on Saturday, 4 October, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The blog by this name, until now a newly-opened blog with no articles, is now in business. The sub-title I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things might seem an anti-intellectual point of … Continue reading →

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De spiritali amicitia

Posted on Wednesday, 17 September, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite a while since I wrote Aelred of Rievaulx and Friendship on the basis of the famous dialogue by Aelred of Rievaulx. Fr Hunwicke has just written two articles in this vein with the problem of homosexual “marriage” in … Continue reading →

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Article about “20th century Sarum”

Posted on Wednesday, 10 September, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already mentioned St George’s in Sudbury in this blog. See Sarum in contemporary Roman Catholicism and Sarum in the Roman Catholic Church. The Rad Trad blog has just published Major Fetish in the Boutique: Sarum in the 20th Century with … Continue reading →

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Aristocracy of the Spirit

Posted on Wednesday, 7 May, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The term aristocracy of the spirit may seem pretentious or arrogant, especially if it comes from those who think they are better than others or have a right to flout the laws that bind “lesser” mortals. The notion can lead … Continue reading →

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Being Yourself

Posted on Monday, 28 April, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We are definitely in a new Romantic era as I listen to this young American! It is a temptation to dismiss the millennial generation, but actually many of them have broken away from the dictatorship of the old century and … Continue reading →

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Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo

Posted on Sunday, 13 April, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo; facta est quasi vidua domina gentium; princeps provinciarum facta est sub tributo. “How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great … Continue reading →

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Harsh Judgement on Romanticism

Posted on Friday, 4 April, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention was drawn to this quite heavy philosophical piece – Carl Schmitt on Romanticism as a Form of Occasionalism, with a hat tip to David Sullivan who sometimes comments here. I won’t go into the philosophical details or try … Continue reading →

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Serious Romanticism

Posted on Tuesday, 1 April, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have discovered this blog which is of great interest in the matter of historical Romanticism (early nineteenth century), its literature, art, music and philosophy – Catherine Redford’s Romanticism Blog. I particularly recommend looking at the Romanticism Resources page. We … Continue reading →

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The Lighter Romantia

Posted on Monday, 31 March, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I ought to mention in all seriousness that the kind of Romanticism I have written about is not connected with a subject on which I have written in my lighter moments. One such article is The Invisible Empire of Romantia. The … Continue reading →

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