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The Bread of the Strong - Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (Paperback)
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The Bread of the Strong - Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (Paperback)
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unpublished letters, retreat notes, privately published and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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