Monsignor Romano Guardini on power, faith, and truth in the modern world

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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Monsignor Romano Guardini on power, faith, and truth in the modern world

Godspy.com has an excerpt from "Power and Responsibility", a lengthy essay (published alone as a book in 1951, then in English by Regency in 1961) that forms the second part of The End of the Modern World (ISI, 1998), written by the great theologian Monsignor Romano Guardini (1885-1968).

I read The End of the Modern World a few years ago and I really need to read it again since I think (I hope!) that I can better appreciate now what Guardini writes about modernity, technology, and the dangers faced by what we might call post-modern man. It would also be worth reading again because Guardini apparently had a strong and lasting influence on a student named Joseph Ratzinger. And while that influence may have been mostly in the realm of liturgy (one of Guardini's specialties and obviously of great interest to Ratzinger), I'll bet there are many themes and perspectives shared by the two men when it comes to culture and the modern world. Speaking of which, don't miss Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, just published by Ignatius Press. I just received a copy and plan to read it while travelling to and from South Dakota this weekend.