Book Recommendation: George Weigel, "Cube and the Cathedral"
| I have not read this book at all, but I have read this author and the title looks great. I am working at a friends office at the school where he teaches, doing editorial assistance on an encyclopedia project on which he is co-editor and really managing editor, and I just happened to see the book on his desk. It is The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope, the famous biography of Pope John Paul II. I have read an article by Weigel on a similar topic entitle "A Better Concept of Freedom." The Title of this book sort of follows Chesterton's contrast in the images of circle/ball vs cross, but seems to move in the direction of Weigel's own emphasis on the Via Antiqua vs the Via Moderna. I bring this up because one of the reasons I love Rowling is that I think she is a great example of how a post-modern is helping to re-introduce some of the health of the Via Antiqua (terms V.A. and V.M. borrowed from lectures by Dr. Scott Hahn. |
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Pauli said ... (January 27, 2006 8:59 PM)
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Merlin said ... (January 28, 2006 12:13 AM)
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post a commentGreat writer! Weigel is a semi-regular guest on Laura Ingraham's show and I heard him pitch this book one morning when it came out. Going on Amazon, there's a review mentioning Chesterton also.... Another reviewer mention Letters to a Young Catholic which I read and thoroughly enjoyed; he deals a lot with Western history and literature (Chesterton, Tolkien, Waugh, etc.) in that one and "the Catholic imagination" which inspired so many authors. Plus there's a great chapter on the scavi and how you can go down there and see where they found the remains of ole St. Peter's - I got chill bumps reading that. I thought "Man, I've been to Rome twice and still haven't made it down there!" Well, next time for sure....
Amazing coincidences, when I followed the link Pauli so helpfully inserted to the book listing on Amazon, Amazon had there little "buy this book with this other book" thing and the other book was How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
In the common area I was working in today on fo my friend's coleagues named Paul Kengor had walked up to me and shown me that book and suggested it just today around the time I had written this post.