Elie Kedourie and Henri de Lubac

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes A. Gide, Souvenirs littéraires et problèmes actuels (Beirut: Les Lettres Françaises, 1946), pp.55 – 9. E. Kedourie, Hegel and Marx: Introductory Lectures, S. Kedourie and H. Kedourie (eds.), (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995), pp.45, 47. Introduction in E. Kedourie, (ed.), Nationalism in Asia and Africa (London:Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970), pp.94 – 5. Ibid., pp.97 – 9. H. de Lubac, La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, 2 vols (Paris and Namur: Editions Lethiellieux/Culture et Vérité, 1979 – 81), Vol.I, pp.180 – 2, Vol.II, p.340. E. Kedourie, ‘The Third World and the Idea of Revolution’, in E.E. Rice (ed.) Revolution and Counter-Revolution, (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991), pp.189 – 92. De Lubac, La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, Vol.I, pp.272 – 3. Kedourie, Hegel and Marx, pp.44 – 7. Ibid., p.46. Ibid., see the chapter ‘Hegel and Lessing’, pp.37 – 47. Ibid., see ‘Hegel and Schiller’ and ‘One and All’, pp.23 – 35, 48 – 62. Ibid., pp.53 – 6. Ibid., pp.59 – 60. Ibid., p.85. Ibid., p.69. Ibid., see the chapters ‘Hegel's Thought’ and ‘Hegel and Religion’, pp.63 – 90. Ibid., p.74. Ibid., pp.74 – 5. Ibid., pp.146 – 7. For de Lubac's treatment of Lessing and Hölderlin, see La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, Vol.I, pp.266 – 78, 336 – 42. The translations of this and subsequent quotations are by the present author. Ibid., pp.359 – 77. Kedourie, Hegel and Marx, pp.148 – 50. H. de Lubac, Oeuvres complètes, Vol. II, Le Drame de l'humanisme athée (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1998), pp.103 – 13. See notably G. Fessard, Le Mystère de la Société: Recherches sur le sens de l'histoire (Brussels: Culture et Vérité, 1997) – a posthumous work edited by Michel Sales. On Fessard and Aron, see N. Bavarez, ‘Raymond Aron et le R.P. Gaston Fessard: le drame de l'existence historique au XXe siècle’, and R. Aron, ‘Gaston Fessard devant ‘l'actualité historique’ ’ in Commentaire, Vol.8, Nos.28 – 9 (Feb. 1985), pp.193 – 9, 520 – 9 – a special joint issue of this periodical entitled Raymond Aron, 1905 – 1983: Histoire et politique. Kedourie, Hegel and Marx, p.154. Ibid., pp.161 – 2. Ibid., pp.166 – 91. D. McLellan, Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp.7, 47. De Lubac, Oeuvres complètes, Vol.II, pp.23 – 39. De Lubac, La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, Vol.II, pp.341 – 7. Ibid., pp.356 – 63. Ibid., pp.364 – 65. A similar concern was shared by Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict XVI – at the time de Lubac was preparing his two volumes. See especially the essay ‘Eschatology and Utopia’, first published in 1977, in J. Ratzinger, Church, Ecumenism and Politics (Slough and New York: St Paul Publications, 1988), pp.237 – 54. The legacy of the Cistercian abbot is neatly summarized (p.251): ‘Joachim of Fiore ... made the fateful link between monastic utopia and chiliasm. Originally the two had nothing in common with each other ... Joachim created a construction of history in which the Trinitarian God himself appeared as the principle of progress in history. The old idea that monasticism was an anticipation of the world of the Spirit was now given a chronological content: monasticism was an anticipation of the next stage of history. In this way utopia was historicized and turned into a historical goal that was to be actively striven for. However medieval and monastic Joachim's statements may be in detail, structurally they opened up the path to Hegel and to Marx: history is a process that pushes forward in which man is actively at work building his or her salvation which in its turn is not to be recognized from the mere logic of the present but is guaranteed by the logic of history.’ See, however, the chapter on Kedourie in M. Cowling, Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp.315 – 38. E. Kedourie, Nationalism, 4th edn. (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), p.70. E. Kedourie (ed.), The Jewish World: Revelation, Prophecy and History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979), p.11. E. Kedourie, The Crossman Confessions and Other Essays in Politics, History and Religion (London and New York: Mansell, 1984), p.213. See R. Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919 – 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.27, 37 – 41, 74 – 5, 150 – 1. See S.G. Haim (ed.), Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), pp.69 – 72 (from the Introduction), 242 – 9 (M. Aflaq, ‘Nationalism and Revolution’). Introduction in Kedourie, Nationalism in Asia and Africa, pp.2 – 3, 131, 146 – 7, and E. Kedourie, Politics in the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp.296 – 8. De Lubac, La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, Vol.I, p.7. Ibid., Vol.II, pp.366 – 74. Ibid., pp.380 – 1. See J. Girardi, Marxisme et christianisme (Paris: Desclée 1969), and G. Fessard, Chrétiens marxistes et théologie de la libération (Paris and Namur: Editions Lethiellieux/Culture et Vérité, 1978). G. Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation (London: SCM Press, 1983), pp.216 – 7. Ibid., pp.41, 182. E. Kedourie, ‘History, the Past and the Future’, in The Crossman Confessions, p.177. Notably ‘Arnold J Toynbee: History as Paradox’ and ‘Religion and Politics: Arnold Toynbee and Martin Wight’ in The Crossman Confessions, pp.191 – 218, the final chapter ‘The Chatham House Version’ in E. Kedourie, The Chatham House Version and Other Middle-Eastern Studies, new ed. (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1984), pp.351 – 94, and E. Kedourie, ‘Arnold Toynbee and his ‘Nonsense Book”, The New Criterion, March 1990, pp.18 – 31. Notably E. Kedourie, ‘New Histories for Old’ in The Crossman Confessions, pp.159 – 76. De Lubac, La Postérité spirituelle de Joachim de Flore, Vol.II, pp.447 – 9. For the idea of an ‘inaugurating rupture’, see M. de Certeau, ‘La rupture instauratrice, ou le christianisme dans la culture contemporaine’, Esprit, June 1971, pp.1177 – 1214, which, in an edited form, was published posthumously in M. de Certeau, La Faiblesse de croire, edited by Luce Giard (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1987), pp.183 – 226. Kedourie, ‘New Histories for Old’, pp.172 – 4

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