{"title":"Hugh of St. Victor: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Educators","authors":"J. Sullivan","doi":"10.1177/00125806211049724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00125806211049724","url":null,"abstract":"Using Hugh of St. Victor (1096–1141) as an example, the article outlines key features of medieval educational assumptions and practices that can be drawn upon to challenge and offer an alternative to the ethos and priorities in universities today. Hugh’s writings are analysed with a view to demonstrating how an approach to education that is illuminated by religious faith has the resources to provide a more holistic route to higher learning than is currently available. His understanding of the arts, reading, memory and restoration, together with his treatment of the discipline of the body, the role of example and imitation, and the influence of living in community on student learning – all combine to promote rationality, realism and virtue in service of wisdom.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121338280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages","authors":"Dom Oliver Holt","doi":"10.1177/00125806211012387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00125806211012387","url":null,"abstract":"compatible with Catholic doctrine, and thus prepared the ground for the Joint Declaration on Justification in 2016. Duffy’s attempt to rehabilitate the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor is partly behind his chapter that criticises the Victorian historian J. A. Froude, although he remains impressed by the latter’s dependence on primary archival sources. He rejects Froude’s central theme that the Reformation was a necessary step towards the emergence of a Protestant nation, and he couples the 20th-century historian A. G. Dickens with Froude, since Dickens argued, unjustifiably according to Duffy, that bankrupt late medieval Christianity was replaced by a biblical Protestantism. The story of the restoration of Marian Walsingham, in the following chapter, with its setbacks and successes, helps to balance Dickens’ prognostication. Duffy, however, saves his thunder for his final chapter, ‘Fiction and fact’, where he forensically demolishes much of the fiction which claims to be fact in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of novels about the Reformation and which forms a published postscript to his earlier attack on Mantel in the Times Literary Supplement (13 November 2020). While admitting to the author’s painstaking research and her engaging literary style, he admonishes the author for skirting around the value of the recent Catholic revisionist version of the Reformation, of which he himself is a standard-bearer, and returning instead to the jaded Protestant Reformation myth. Duffy believes Mantel unfairly demonises Thomas More. Doubtless he now awaits an iconoclastic response to his idolatrous papistry.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130218048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Ludolph of Saxony, The Life of Jesus Christ (Part 1, Vol. 2, Chapters 41–92, trans. MT Walsh)","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620987312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620987312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116780136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Thoughts on Administering the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick to Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19","authors":"W. Newton","doi":"10.1177/00125806211014815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00125806211014815","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about access to the Sacraments, particularly the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. To stop the transmission of infectious diseases by the minister, it has been suggested that the priest could use a nurse to apply the sacred oils to the patient or recipient while he remains in the vicinity but a medically safe distance from the bedside, using a phone to communicate with the patient. Whether or not such a protocol would invalidate the Sacrament requires an investigation of some foundational principles of Sacramental theology, including the use of instruments in the execution of Sacraments, how the form of a Sacrament must be conveyed, and the requisite proximity of the minister to the recipient. A careful analysis of these principles, in light to the suggested protocol, leads to the surprising (although tentative) conclusion that the Sacrament would be valid if executed in this manner.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115395285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Vindication of Desire: St Anselm, with C. S. Lewis","authors":"M. Mills","doi":"10.1177/00125806211016795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00125806211016795","url":null,"abstract":"Despite different starting points, in the cloister and the world respectively, Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) and C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) enjoyed a mutual interest in the concept and experience of spiritual desire. Inspired by Lewis’ famous sermon, ‘The Weight of Glory’ (1941), but principally guided by Anselm’s reflections, this essay argues that desire exists in a dynamic relationship with love and that, as a journey of desire, the Christian life is extremely challenging, since it is a journey into mystery and towards moral perfection, but also contains and ultimately fulfils God’s promise of eternal joy. It is hoped that one by-product of this exploration may be to accord greater recognition to Anselm as a spiritual, even mystical, theologian, recognising him in Jean Leclercq’s description of an earlier monastic leader, Gregory the Great (d. 604), as a ‘doctor of desire’.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123098469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Modernist Interest in Mysticism. Friedrich von Hügel’s Contribution to the Discourse on ‘Religious Experience’ around 1900","authors":"Christian Stoll","doi":"10.1177/00125806211016792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00125806211016792","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes from the case of Friedrich von Hügel what the special interest of Roman Catholic Modernism in mysticism was about. Different from major tendencies in modernist research, it places his work in the framework of the discourse on “religious experience” around 1900. This way it becomes visible that von Hügel’s account of mysticism was shaped to a great extent by scholars from a liberal Protestant background, such as William James, Rudolf Eucken, and Ernst Troeltsch. In engaging these scholars, von Hügel was able to develop his own concept of the “mystical element” of religion from the perspective of a Catholic believer. The case of von Hügel suggests that Roman Catholic Modernism in general should be studied more in connection with its scientific setting outside Catholic theology.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114638817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Cassian’s Royal Road: Discretion, Balance, and the Tradition of the Fathers","authors":"Peter J. Smith","doi":"10.1177/0012580621997049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621997049","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout John Cassian’s Institutes, he regularly exhorts his readers to ascetic discretion and moderation. He refers to this path of discretion as the ‘royal road’. To the left is negligence and acquiescence to temptation. On the right is over-zealous ascetic endeavors that often leave one weak and vulnerable to unclean thoughts and temptation. The royal road, meanwhile, is paved with ascetic moderation and continual discernment of one’s thoughts. This image of the royal road can be seen at work in Cassian’s discussions of grace and free will in both Institutes and Conferences. This royal road is also at work in his Christological treatise, On the Incarnation. Cassian positions Nestorius’ christology among the various heretics on the left and right of the tradition of the fathers that commits itself to the mysterious union of divinity and humanity in Christ.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"403 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133614645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: An Introduction to Biblical Greek: A Grammar with Exercises","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620987310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620987310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"531 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132572348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Jennifer Moorcroft, When Silence Speaks: The Life and Spirituality of Elisabeth Leseur","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620987313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620987313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130793031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}