Vincent Mcnabb
Biographic Data
| ID | 961452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Mcnabb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnabb |
| SIGNATURE | MCNABB V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 113 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 113 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Our Aim of Truth
The true speaking absolutely is prior to the good, as appears from two reasons. First because the true is more closely related to being, which is prior to good. . . Secondly . . . knowledge naturally precedes appetite." (Summa, 1a, q. 16, art. 4, English trans.)The object of the intellect (i.e. Truth) "is more simple and more absolute than the object of the will" (i.e. goodness). Therefore the intellect in itself and absolutely is higher and nobl…
Blessed Are the Poor
After these things, Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is that of Tiberius . . . (St John 6, 1).Let us think of these five barley loaves and two fishes. As you know our blessed Lord and Apostles had nothing. You will remember when our blessed Lord began to preach the redemption of the world he took care to begin at the beginning, the first thing necessary-'Blessed are the poor in spirit'. Religious life begins too with that poverty. Until …
Catholic Action in Apostolic Days
We have set down these extracts in the time-order in which they were written and not in the time-order of the recorded facts. Thus St. Luke's record comes last. Yet it narrates facts earlier than those recorded in the three earlier Epistles of St. Paul.The principle here involved is of fundamental importance in deciding the value of facts omitted by an earlier writer but recorded by a later.The first extract is from the first letter St. Paul wrot…
Scripture, Tradition, and the Church
We read in the Acts of the Apostles (xv, 23-29) :'The Apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia-Greeting.'It hath seemed good to us assembled together ( to choose out men and to send them unto you. with our well-beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.'We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also by word of m…
An Anglican on the 'Two Witnesses
In August and October, 1926, the Anglican Quarterly, Theology, published two remarkable articles written by the Ireland Professor of Exegesis at Oxford (C. H. Turner) and entitled 'St. Peter in the New Testament.' Their writer was a scholar of such competence in Biblical and Patristic studies that his advocacy of the Petrine claims made his articles the most important work on Anglo-Roman controversy since Newman's Development.One point especially…
The Problem of Prophecy: A letter written during the Great War
The Hebrew Prophets and National Crises
The subject of the Hebrew Prophets and National Crises is one that could hardly be exhausted in a book of slender bulk. I can, therefore, only sketch out some outline of this great and, at the present time, very important matter.First of all, we have to consider the wonderful phenomenon of these Prophets. It is not just a natural thing. It has a supernatural element, made up of all that is natural. The supernatural is not built on the natural, bu…
On Authority and Obedience
Pius XII and 'The Flight from the Land
All over the world . . . our troubles have one bitter root . . . the ignoring of God's majesty, the complete neglect of His heavenly commandments or, at best, a woeful inconsistency that can do nothing but hesitate between right and wrong.' It is this that gives rise to our blind excess of self-love- to our thirst for pleasure . . . the Flight from the Land (.Agrorum desertio), to levity in contracting marriage (in matrimoniis contrahendis ludifi…
Some Principles of Peace
How Faith Safeguards Reason
1. If anyone shall deny one true God, Creator and Lord of things visible and invisible; let him be anathema.2. If anyone shall not be ashamed to affirm that, except matter, nothing exists; let him be anathema.3. If anyone shall say that the substance and essence of God and of all things is one and the same; let him be anathema. (Vatican Council-on Catholic Faith, Can. I-III).1. If anyone shall say that the one true God our Creator and Lord cannot…
The New Communism: An answer to a Priest
You have set me a very difficult problem, which my fifty years study of theology makes me chary of solving. In using the word difficult I do not mean the difficulty of gathering from your long letter with its many anxious repetitions the few points of uncertainty which you wish me to solve. My main difficulty after having gathered the heads of your difficulties is to solve the few difficulties which I have gathered.Of course I know that you are n…
The Spectre of Evacuation
Two recent facts without precedent in the history of the world are worthy of being considered by the readers of Blackfriars.1. By Order of his Majesty's Government Millions of Gas-Masks Were Distributed to Citizens.2. By Order of his Majesty's Government Plans Were Made (And Effectively Begun) For Evacuating Many of The Citizens from the Towns to the Country.From London Alone 2,000,000 (Including 500,000 Children) Were to be Evacuated
Can Any Good Come Out of Communism
No one should attempt to read what I shall write unless they understand a principle which alone could justify what may seem like a justification of Communism. I think I first realised the principle when discussing Henry VIII with Protestants whom Froude's glorification of Henry had infected. The Froude-infected mind proclaims the great good that came of Henry's policy; as if the increased fertility of the infant burial place at Bethlehem justifie…
Autobiography: G. K. Chesterton. (Burns Oates; 10/6.)
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Lagrange on Orphism
On reading the quiet, always scholarly and often humorous pages of a veteran's book on a difficult subject, it is hard to know whether it is the book or the writer that holds us most. The bibliography given in Pére Lagrange's study of Orphism suggests the obvious remark that the lyre of the Thracian god-if he be a god and if he be a Thracian-still renders spell-bound but not dumb-founded a throng of living beings.Needless to say this latest write…
On Evidence
John Wesley and Christian Peace
Some little time ago the present writer was ordered by his Prior to speak at an Inter-denominational Anti-War demonstration on Hampstead Heath. The demonstration was no doubt due to a widespread opinion that, all physical and political expedients for ensuring peace having failed, the only hope for peace would be through moral means. This opinion bore on its face the outline of sanity and almost of inevitability. Indeed so sane and inevitable did …
Archbishop Davidson
Some few weeks before Archbishop Davidson died the present writer met him by his own gracious arrangement at the house of the late Lord Lovat in Bryanston Square. It was a wild rain-stormy afternoon sufficient to make younger men than the Archbishop find excuses for keeping indoors. Knowing his four score and two years, I awaited a telephone message telling me that the Archbishop dare not venture to leave home. But punctually almost to the minute…
Communist Self-Witness About Spain
a) The brief account of events in Spain since 1931, given on earlier pages, shows the vivid contrast between the weakness of the Republican-Socialist Government of 1931-1933 and the strength of the Republican Government of 1936. (b) It would be incredible blindness for anyone in the working class or on the side of democracy and liberty, not to see what made this change possible. (c) It was the developing strength of the working class as a whole; …
The Humble Singer of Emmanuel
The Eucharistic hymns of St. Thomas are a cycle-indeed the only cycle-of liturgical song. They form such a unity and fulness of Eucharistic truth and worship that a greater than Elgar or Bach would be needed to express them as an oratorio.But there is one spiritual quality throughout them which the greatest master of music would confess to be beyond the power of his craft. Every line of these Eucharistic hymns, though unmistakably wrought by geni…
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The death of Gilbert Keith Chesterton-or " G.K.," as we called him-allows us to see his life as a complete and unique whole.Looked at merely as a thing of art, the three score and two crowded years between birth in London and burial in Beaconsfield seem to make a full circle or indeed cycle of doings and happenings. Later on his autobiography will let us listen to the man who made the story telling the story or history he has made. But though eve…
Meditation on Peace
In these days greatly troubled by War, we may well speak of Peace. The word itself almost brings refreshment to our minds when the sky above us has been troubled by the sounds of our country's preparation for war. I feel we are in one of the most critical periods of the world. For the moment, I presume that God alone, and those in the secrets of God, can see the end.The kingdoms of the world must go forth to war if they want to spread; if they wi…
The Church of England and Transubstantiation
The Mysticism of St. John of the Cross
About the year 1528, the parents of St. John, Gonzalo de Yepes of Toledo and Catalina Alvarez of Toledo, were married in the village of Fontiveros on the plateau of Old Castile. It was not a mariage de convenance, but undeniably a love-match. Spanish biographers of the Saint tell us that, whilst Gonzalo was of 'rich and noble parentage,' Catalina was of parentage that was not noble nor perhaps reputable. But these same biographers, as if to softe…
St. Thomas Aquinas and Law
A quotation from the fearless and original thought of Baron Friedrich von Hugel will be our justification with those who may consider our praise of St. Thomas Aquinas unjustly superlative. He writes : . this Norman-Italian Friar Noble, a soul so apparently derivative and abstractive, is more complete and balanced and penetrates to the specific genus of Christianity more deeply than Saints Paul and Augustine, with all their directness and intensit…
The Lambeth Conference
Throughout the month of July, and until August 8th, the Bishops in communion with the Sees of Canterbury and York will sit in conference at Lambeth. The War which has given the English-speaking peoples, for good or evil, a paramount influence in international politics will therefore add a more than transient spiritual weight to a conference of Bishops discussing world problems in the English tongue. Even without the gravity which comes to it from…
Canterbury and Rome
A deep sense of responsibility urged us to write in our July issue some of the thoughts that filled our soul on the eve of the Lambeth Conference. We were of those who could see, and even profess to see a unique event in the assembly of two hundred and fifty Bishops in communion with the Sees of Canterbury and York. These Bishops, belonging to the two great English-speaking nations, could not discuss after-war problems in the spiritual sphere wit…
St. Thomas Aquinas and Biblical Criticism
We purpose (1) to set down a few passages from the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas dealing with Biblical Criticism ; and (2) to give a short commentary on them."In discussing matters of this kind, two rules are to be observed, as Augustine teaches (Gen. ad litt. i). The first is to hold the truth of Scripture without wavering. The second is that since Holy Scripture can be explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a parti…
Our Lord Jesus Christ's Knowledge of his Divinity — Reply
Medical Ethics
We do not know whether the book which has occasioned this article signifies the decay either of ethics or of (what its writer calls) "medicine" ; or of both ethics and medicine, for without a doubt it signifies a decay. A profession such as "medicine," which deals with the human ultimates of birth, marriage, and death, has an ethical import which might well exercise the genius of a modern Thomas Browne. We must not be taken to indulge in personal…
The Crime of Birth Control
Two dates in the present year are likely to be of great moment to the historians of this country. On Thursday, March 17 (St. Patrick's Day) there was opened at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, N., the first "Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control." Its founders were "Humphrey Verdon Roe and his wife, Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D."On Tuesday, May 31, the Queen's Hall held a large and sympathetic audience at a "Meeting convened by Dr. Marie Stopes…
The "Summa" of St. Thomas in English
It is now eleven years since the publication of the first volume of the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, literally translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. The contemporary book-market hardly noticed the arrival of the stranger who modestly took his place amidst the "recent books." Few of the buyers and sellers in the market suspected the toil and hope that had prepared this translation for its place on the already overcrow…
The Doctrinal Witness of the Fourth Gospel
The recent Conference of Church of England Modernists has drawn attention to the Fourth Gospel. In calling it the Fourth Gospel we are not minded to deny that it is the Gospel of St. John, the beloved disciple. Indeed, we should be doing violence to our reason, or our reasons, if we did otherwise than believe it to be the eye-witness and ear-witness of him who leaned on the bosom of the Master. But our chief aim is to denote the historic value of…
Who are Members of the Church
Our Lord Jesus Christ's Knowledge of his Divinity
By the modern non-catholic mind the problem of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s knowledge of His Divinity is stated in terms of Consciousness. In other words, the mass of non-catholic writers on the nature and work of Jesus Christ ask, and in various ways answer, such a question as this : “Was Jesus Christ conscious of His Divinity?” For example, this statement of the great problem of the Jesus Christ of the Gospels was dominant in the recent conference o…
Bishop Gore, Dean Rashdall, and St. Thomas Aquinas
The dogmatic duel between the two intellectual leaders of Anglo-Catholicism and Modernism within the Church of England is a struggle of giants made homely by irrepressible sallies of the ‘average man.’ Neither the Bishop nor the Dean can lay aside that human nature which feels and even repays a hurt. We should have no joy in recording one of these sallies if strangely enough it did not bind into a single sheaf of words what it elsewhere scattered…
Did Jesus Christ Claim to be God
We may imitate the method of our master St. Thomas by setting down the opinion from which we differ. Dean Rashdall of Carlisle has given us a full and perhaps final expression of that opinion in his paper read at the Cambridge Conference of Modern Churchmen under the title “Christ as Logos and Son of God.” He writes : “Jesus did not claim divinity for Himself. He may have called Himself, or more probably allowed Himself to be called, the Messiah …
Constantinople and the Lambeth Conference: Report of the Delegation to the Lambeth Conference of the Oecumenical Patriarchate at Constantinople
Certain facts must be stated in the words of the first-hand authorities : A. ‘Another welcome sign of East and West drawing closer together is found in the letter from the locum tenens of the Oecumenical Patriarchate at Constantinople unto all the Churches wheresoever they be, which was sent from the Phanar to the Archbishop of Canterbury. ‘Chief in importance, however, has been the visit of a special delegation from the Oecumenical Patriarchate …
Further Steps Towards Reunion
We have always felt and expressed the opinion that the de facto separation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome came about by process of law; not, indeed, primarily ecclesiastical, but civil. In this it did but follow the character of our people, over whom the majesty of law has always had such sway that for a time the country accepted with almost Oriental fanaticism the Divine Right of Kings.This fixed opinion of ours on the lega…
The Resurrection of the Body
Unigenitus Dei Filius Jesus Christus. . . venturus in fine saeculi, judicaturus vivos- et mortuos et redditurus singulis secundum opera sua, tarn reprobris quam electis, qui omnes cum suis propriis resurgent corporibus, quae nunc gestant ut recipiant secundum opera sua, sive bona fuerint sive mala.The only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, who will come at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, and to reward each according to their de…
The Resurrection of the Body: The Witness of Reason
We have said that the Resurrection of the Body, being a revealed mystery is not provable by reason, but is acceptable only on authority. As a preface to 'the Witness of Reason,' we set down the principle of St. Thomas :Whoever tries to prove '(a mystery of faith)' by natural reason derogates from faith in two ways :'First, as regards the dignity of faith itself, which consists in its being concerned with invisible things that exceed human reason …
Bishop Gore's Belief in God
John Henry Newman's Apologia pro vita sua has been epigrammatically described as "the work of a French sceptic controlled by an English don-or a joint product of Voltaire and Bishop Butler." Bishop Gore's Belief in God, which might well be called his Apologia pro fide sua, is of the same dual and complementary parenthood as the earlier Apologia. Cardinal and Bishop alike belong to that resolute band of thinkers for whom the highest truths are to …
A Resurrection of Relics
A Resurrection of Relics is the title of a "Modern Churchman's defence in a recent charge of heresy" urged against the Rev. H. D. A. Major, principal of a Church of England Theological College at Oxford, and Editor of The Modern Churchman. Presented by a brother clergyman to his bishop on a charge of heresy on account of a statement publicly made "that the form which the doctrine of the resurrection assumes in his mind is the survival of death by…
St. Luke's Witness to St. Peter
It is a little disconcerting that Catholic apologetics and Biblical exegesis, on the whole, have not yet grasped the full value of the organic treatment of the Gospels; especially in the matter of the Petrine privilege. Apologists and Biblical exegetes still largely appraise the gospel data by what may almost be called ‘a show of hands.’ We have no wish to discourage this method of valuation; which, indeed, is often demanded by the literary chara…
A New Theory of the Eucharistic Sacrifice
The following statements of doctrine occur in the book Mysterium Fidei, by the Rev. Maurice de la Taille, S.J. (Paris: Gab. Beauchesne, 1921).(1) Coena ig-itur et Crux inter se complent. Ini coena incoeptum est sacrificium illud quod in cruce erat consummandum.(2) Reperitur immolationis realitas in passione mortis. At in symbolica immalatione coenae elucet potissimum oblationis liturgicae proprietas.(1) The Last Supper and the Cross are complemen…
The Anglo-Catholic Congress
From Tuesday, July ioth, to Friday, July 13th, during a summer heat of unparalleled ferocity, the men and women who look upon themselves as the heirs of the Tractarians held a Congress in the Albert Hall. The things said and done by these successors of Froude, Keble and Newman give food for thought and prayer.(1) The Congress, merely as a social and religious phenomenon, cannot be ignored, and should not be belittled. It is a social and religious…
The Mediatorship of the Blessed Virgin
The Decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (12th January, 1921) authorising the Office and Mass of our Lady 'Mediatrix Gratiarum' (Mediatrix of Graces), has given rise to a theological discussion on the nature of this mediatorship of our Blessed Lady..The most common, and perhaps the most convenient, formula of this mediatorship is :All Graces come through Mary, the MotherThis formula has two meanings. First, all graces come through Mary beca…
God's Book
The Sacrifice of Calvary in the Gospel of St. John
In the September issue of Blackfriars we took occasion to point out the fundamental and very serious error of Pere de la Taille's book, Mysterium Fidei, on the Sacrifice of Calvary. Our last argument against the new theory of Père de la Taille was drawn from the Gospel of St. John. We said: 'If there is one Evangelist who seems concerned to bring out the fact that Jesus was a priest and that His death was the act of sacrificial redemption, it is …
Is it Modernism
The late Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford has published what we must call a scholarly and painful book. Only a scholar brought up in the atmosphere of a modern University could have written as Bishop Headlam has written on 'Jesus the Christ.' Even the 'Map,' which is duly heralded on the title-page, has that note of scholarship which the older Universities, with their dogged craftsmanship, keep amidst a machine-mad world.It goes without say…
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