(12-22-2019, 06:52 PM)formerbuddhist Wrote: AugustinianI was just looking up this book to purchase the other day. Unfortunately it's at a minimum approximately $50 used and a mind-boggling (those algorithms wreck havoc with book prices) and at least $232 new online. His work looks promising, even if seems a bit stern on the style and tone. While Remnant Press published it in 2011, there are no listings for it at their store website.
formerbuddhist
Call me crazy but the BEST book on this all encompassing worldview from a Catholic perspective is Dr. John Rao's Black Legends. He was very clear in that book and in many of his talks (from the old Keep The Faith site were instrumental in helping me finally see that there cannot be a disconnect between inner and outer, sacred and secular.
A shame so many such traditionally oriented titles are small press and go out of print soon, with the few copies out on the market astronomically marked up, and these are not the types of holdings found at the local library. But then I found that the kind author links to a pdf of it from his own extensive list of writings. Huzzah! He warns it's 350k words.
These three books are all in print: his intro to the updated ed. of Ferrara + Woods' feisty "The Great Facade" which kept me up many a night reading on and on. I then sampled the start via Amazon the start of the collection Rao has since edited by scholars on "Luther's Progeny" as well as his own recent "Removing the Blindfold: 19th c Catholics and the Myth of Modern Freedom
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some people may hear today (Francis of Assisi); Win an argument, lose a soul (Fulton Sheen)