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Traditional Truth, Poetry, Sacrament - For My Mother, on Her 70th Birthday (Hardcover)
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Traditional Truth, Poetry, Sacrament - For My Mother, on Her 70th Birthday (Hardcover)
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Pieper collects his contributions to radio programs and to a number
of journals and periodicals. The book also includes a selection of
notes and comments. The contributions fall into two main groups:
the period which encompasses the immediate pre-war period as well
as the war period itself, and the post-war period up to 1953.The
reader becomes witness, first, to Pieper's problems with the
National Socialist regime and, second, to his problems with the
ensuing challenges to religious life as it is exposed to increasing
secularization. As with his later works, Pieper draws on
traditional wisdom which, for him, dates back to Plato and
Aristotle, and in these contributions we also see his early
preoccupation with the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. The normal
boundaries between philosophy and theology are here not clearly
drawn. Pieper is preoccupied with the mystery of our world and its
importance as a source of symbols signifying deeper levels of
reality. He sees the sacraments as achieving their fundamental
effect from divine intervention, but he also highlights the need
for careful observance of the rituals, so that their meaning is not
obscured. Proper execution of the sacrament should enable the
faithful to enjoy the existential fruits of their participation in
the ritual. This work manifests the organic cohesion of Pieper's
thinking, and it reflects his profound awareness of the role to be
played not so much by the professional (academic) philosopher as by
the existential Philosophizer.
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