Tag Archives: Romanticism

Self Reliance

Posted on Friday, 24 April, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a theme on which I have already touched in my posting about Transcendentalism which I encountered through Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was distinguished through his Self-Reliance. It is a point that is still uppermost in my … Continue reading →

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Informal talk on the Use of Sarum

Posted on Friday, 17 April, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is an informal talk on my book A Twitch on the Sarum Thread with greater insistence on the founding cultural and philosophical principles underlying liturgical traditions. Indeed it is not specifically about the Sarum Use / Rite but the … Continue reading →

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An Easter Day Ramble

Posted on Sunday, 12 April, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have put this little talk on my Romantic Christianity book. I finish with IX of the Spiritual Songs by Novalis on the Resurrection – in German and then in George McDonald’s beautiful English translation.

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Reilly’s Romantic Religion

Posted on Thursday, 12 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just begun to read R.J. Reilly’s Romantic Religion which is certain to make something I wrote with a similar title pale into insignificance. However, when I wrote Romantic Christianity, I was unaware of the existence of Reilly’s book. … Continue reading →

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Romantic and Patristic Liturgy in Louis Bouyer

Posted on Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The work of Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) was a unique contribution to French ressourcement theology. A convert from Lutheranism and a French Oratorian, he followed John-Henry Newman in many ways, inspired by Newman’s patristic approach rather than a slavish conversion to … Continue reading →

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Anglican Catholicism, a twitch upon the thread

Posted on Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been looking at a fascinating thread on the Anglican Ordinariate Forum on Facebook. Some of those people reflect well, among those of a more fearful disposition. I will try to give a general gist of some of these … Continue reading →

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Romantic Reconstruction or Intellectual Prestige

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The question keeps nagging away in my mind. A little handful of people in the past and today keep producing books and articles about the Rite / Use of Sarum but cannot get through the barrier represented by the fact … Continue reading →

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A Twitch on the Sarum Thread

Posted on Wednesday, 19 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just published this new book after quite a lot of feverish writing and recycling of some of my blog work. I have also included Canon Warren’s translation of the Order of Mass with the rubrics (in italics). See … Continue reading →

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The Sarum Effect

Posted on Tuesday, 18 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The recent Sarum Vespers in America has made quite an impression, as The Legitimacy of the Sarum Use attests. Our Rad Trad (I wish he wouldn’t use that name!) has often come up with extraordinarily sensitive reflections. I have always … Continue reading →

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Scepticism and Freedom of Thought

Posted on Tuesday, 11 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We begin to breathe at the end of Storm Ciara, a particularly vast and nasty one that has caused a considerable amount of damage in the British Isles and northern Europe. My house just suffered a loose tile that I … Continue reading →

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