This volume contains a selection of letters written by Blessed Rosmini during the last few years of his life. They are precious gems of spiritual direction which shows his wisdom and his total dedication to God and neighbour. His correspondents came from a great variety of backgrounds, and whether he was consoling someone who had suffered bereavement, or trying to save the vocation of a lay-brother in difficulties, he showed endless patience and concern. A striking feature of Rosmini is his ability both to "think big" and to go into minute details. What he recommended to others he practised himself. He regarded a religious vocation as a most sacred thing, and he was at pains, with endless patience, to help his brethren and his Sisters when they had problems in fulfilling the pledges they had made to God. Among the recipients of the letters included in this volume we find famous names, like St. John Bosco, Baroness Koenneritz, Nicolo' Tommaseo, and names of famous politicians and of Cardinals and Bishops.
This new edition of the Spiritual Calendar provides a welcome opportunity to make contact with the vibrant spirituality of Blessed Antonio Rosmini, the "householder" of the Gospel "who brings from his storeroom things both new and old". Each daily reflection is a pearl of wisdom which reaches out to the concrete situations of life shedding light and encouraging a response based on truth and charity.
A Collective Summary Antonio Rosmini is the greatest, most original, prophetic Catholic thinker of the last few centuries, little known in the English-speaking world. Following the advice of Popes and Cardinals, he wrote extensively on philosophy, theology, and spirituality, and his teaching is extremely relevant to the major issues confronting the world and the Church of today. His books on spirituality are firmly rooted on Scripture from which they draw the perennial call to holiness, and the means for achieving it through the three steps of purification from sin, constant exercise of the virtues, and union with God. His books on philosophy are full of light for the enquiring mind, ranging from the problem of Truth and Epistemology, to the foundation of Morality, of Right, of Politics, of Natural Anthropology and Natural Religion, and of the Essence of the Human Soul. His work on Theosophy is a most profound study of "being", in its three modes - ideal being, real being, moral being. Faith and Reason, for Rosmini, far from being in opposition are in fact the two wings which allow human beings to rise from the natural to the supernatural world, the one calling on the other, faith calling on reason and reason on faith. His theological masterpiece is undoubtedly the Supernatural Anthropology, which deals with grace, with the "supernatural person", and with the Sacraments. Other important works deal with the Church, in particular with the "wounds" of the Church.
Rosmini is acknowledged as a great Christian philosopher, original and daring in his teaching, and utterly convincing. He is less known as a theologian, mainly because nearly all his theological works have been published after his death, having been left unfinished by the author. Yet, they are truly outstanding and precious, in line with the writings of the great Fathers of the Church, extremely learned on Scripture and on the teaching of the Magisterium, and throwing new light on our understanding of the Trinity, of the supernatural world of grace, and of the Sacraments. The present book is a commentary on the introduction to the Gospel of St. John, and deals with the eternal generation of the Word, the Word's role in Creation, the actions of the Word throughout Salvation History, the death and resurrection of JESUS, and the Eucharistic life in relation to the Christian. The subject matter is difficult but inspired and uplifting: great light is thrown on the great Christian Mysteries, with much warmth and desire to elicit a generous response.
About the Author's Studies is the opening essay in Rosmini's Introduzione alla Filosfia. Written towards the end of his life and after the publication of many works on philosophy, the essay first deals with the aims he had in writing those works. According to him, we tend to clutch at the outward show of good rather than the true good.
Rosmini's Theosophy is the crowning work of his philosophical study and reflection. Written for the most part towards the end of his life and running to five volumes, it was never completed. His intent is to investigate being in all its extension and forms. Vol. 2 Investigates trine being -- being, both infinite and finite, manifests itself in three forms: real, ideal and moral. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity, as three in one, finds a place in such a study.
This booklet is the first theological work of Rosmini to be translated into English but is not entirely alien to the series of translations of his philosophical works carried out over these last eighteen years. He had in mind, for the complete 'Collection' of his works, a section entitled 'The philosophy of supernatural things'. He wanted to con- struct a philosophy which, following a very genuine and critical process of rational investigation, could serve as a foundation for religious truth
Rosmini published two separate books on God's government of the universe. Twenty years later he wrote a longer and more profound work, and published this together with the other two as one volume
This booklet is the first theological work of Rosmini to be translated into English but is not entirely alien to the series of translations of his philosophical works carried out over these last eighteen years. He had in mind, for the complete 'Collection' of his works, a section entitled 'The philosophy of supernatural things'. He wanted to con- struct a philosophy which, following a very genuine and critical process of rational investigation, could serve as a foundation for religious truth
A philosophical examination of the development of thought on the origin of ideas. Rosmini considers critically the teaching of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant; Locke, Hume, Condillac, Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart.
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