Contra Mundum: Joseph de Maistre & The Birth of Tradition by Isham Thomas

Author:Isham, Thomas [Isham, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis
Published: 2017-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

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2 . There was a brief and quite insignificant adolescent hiatus.

3 . Richard Lebrun, quoting from the Preface to the second edition of Du Pape , in Throne and Altar , 126.

4 . Lebrun, citing the first chapter of Du Pape , in Throne and Altar , 127.

5 . Ibid.

6 . Ibid., 126.

7 . Ibid., 127.

8 . Ibid., 125.

9 . Ibid., 117–18.

10 . Ibid., 125–27.

11 . Xavier de Maistre, quoted in Le Correspondant [Paris], December 1902; Madame Swetchine, quoted in Falloux du Coudray, Life and Letters of Madame Swetchine . Cited by Bradley in A Modern Maistre , 191.

12 . The Saint Petersburg Dialogues , Jack Lively, The Works of Joseph de Maistre , 254, 252,194,188.

13 . Ibid., 200.

14 . Throne and Altar , 134.

15 . Ibid.

16 . Citing “Lettre sur le Christianisme,” in Throne and Altar , 135.

17 . Ibid.

18 . Ibid.

19 . Ibid., 135–36, wherein Maistre argues “that theological truths are only general truths, manifested and divinized in the religious sphere.”

20 . Ibid. Gallicanism held that state authority and national customs overrule the Catholic Church at many points. Ultramontanism emphasized the pope’s powers and prerogatives in civil government and temporal affairs.

21 . Ibid., 136. The view in question, that man has both a soul and a spirit, had long been held by esotericists of various kinds and by Christians of various persuasions. That it piques the interest of both is not surprising, for it has ramifications both theoretical and practical, metaphysical and devotional. It has been denied by many Catholics and Protestants alike, especially in the modern era, despite Biblical verses such as 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Corinthians 15:44, Hebrews 4:12, and others. That Maistre held to it, indeed, that he had encountered it in the first place, testifies to his wide reading and reflection in both esoteric and theological literature. It is a theory often ignored by theologians of different stripes, be they conservative or liberal. It is frequently dismissed as of little importance even when recognized as a question demanding at least some attention. To the contrary, we believe it is of considerable importance.

22 . Ibid., 138.

23 . Ibid., 138–39.

24 . Ibid., 139.

25 . Ibid., 140.

26 . Ibid., 141.

27 . East and West (Ghent, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2001), 62.

28 . Ibid., 62–63.

29 . Throne and Altar , 141.

30 . Considerations on France , 19.

31 . Ibid., 19

32 . In “Lettre a une dame protestante” (“Letter to a Protestant Lady”), cited in Throne and Altar , 153.

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