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The Bread of the Strong - Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (Hardcover)
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The Bread of the Strong - Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (Hardcover)
Series: Catholic Practice in North America
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Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld
of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and
influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The
Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history
of the Catholic Worker movement, including the cross-pollination
between American and Quebecois Catholicism and discourse about
Christian antimodernism and radicalism. The considerable
perseverance in the heroic Christian maximalism that became the
hallmark of the Catholic Worker’s personalism owes a great debt
to the influence of Lacouturisme, largely under the stewardship of
John Hugo, along with Peter Maurin and myriad other critical
interventions in Day’s spiritual development. Day made the
retreat regularly for some thirty-five years and promoted it
vigorously both in person and publicly in the pages of The Catholic
Worker. Exploring the influence of the controversial North American
revivalist movement on the spiritual formation of Dorothy Day,
author Jack Lee Downey investigates the extremist intersection
between Roman Catholic contemplative tradition and modern political
radicalism. Well grounded in an abundance of lesser-known primary
sources, including unpublished letters, retreat notes, privately
published and long-out-of-print archival material, and the
French-language papers of Fr. Lacouture, The Bread of the Strong
opens up an entirely new arena of scholarship on the transnational
lineages of American Catholic social justice activism. Downey also
reveals riveting new insights into the movement’s founder and
namesake, Quebecois Jesuit Onesime Lacouture. Downey also frames a
more reciprocal depiction of Day and Hugo’s relationship and
influence, including the importance of Day’s evangelical pacifism
on Hugo, particularly in shaping his understanding of conscientious
objection and Christian antiwar work, and how Hugo’s ascetical
theology animated Day’s interior life and spiritually sustained
her apostolate. A fascinating investigation into the retreat
movement Day loved so dearly, and which she claimed was integral to
her spiritual formation, The Bread of the Strong explores the
relationship between contemplative theology, asceticism, and
radical activism. More than a study of Lacouture, Hugo, and Day,
this fresh look at Dorothy Day and the complexities and challenges
of her spiritual and social expression presents an outward
exploration of the early- to mid–twentieth century dilemmas
facing second- and third-generation American Catholics.
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