{"id":26257,"date":"2011-02-17T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-thought-of-henri-bremond\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:31:08","slug":"the-thought-of-henri-bremond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-thought-of-henri-bremond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thought of Henri Bremond"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"henri<\/a><\/p>\n

In the current
\nissue of La Civiltà Cattolica<\/span>, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro wrote an
\ninteresting essay, “The Thought of Henri Bremond.” Matters pertaining to faith
\nand reason, faith and culture interest me perhaps you. At least that’s what I
\nhope if you are a frequent reader of the Communio blog. Henri Bremond
\n(1865-1933) is a former a Jesuit priest, literary scholar and was in the middle
\nof the Modernist crisis. His literary output was terrific. Bremond was a member
\nof the illustrious Académie Française succeedingm(elected in 1923 holding seat
\nnumber 36). France also awarded the Lé d’honneur. The summary:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

An attempt to
\novercome the gap between faith and culture – In the years that saw the rise of
\nsurrealism, of Freudian thought and of the modernist crisis, Henri Bremond
\ncaptured the separation that was growing between theology and culture
\nsanctioned by the Enlightenment. Bremond suffered in trying to find a
\ncompromise in terms of language, seeking to show to a cultured audience the
\nbest results of a religious sensibility and sought to show to his Catholic
\nreaders the religious value of «profane» literature. Seeing the similarities
\nbetween a mystical and a poetic inspiration, he concluded that “it is up to the
\nmystic to explain the poet,” reversing a common axiom. The article, on the
\noccasion of the reissue of his Prayer and poetry, absent from Italian
\nbookstores for three decades, presents the main insights of the priest,
\nacademician of France.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the current issue of La Civiltà Cattolica, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro wrote an interesting essay, “The Thought of Henri Bremond.” Matters pertaining to faith and reason, faith and culture interest me perhaps you. At least that’s what I hope if you are a frequent reader of the Communio blog. Henri Bremond (1865-1933) is a … Continue reading The Thought of Henri Bremond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1778,1838,2237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}