Reviews for The Crisis of Civilization: Being the Matter of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Fordham University, 1937

The average rating for The Crisis of Civilization: Being the Matter of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Fordham University, 1937 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-12 00:00:00 Tyler Martin Profound, poignant, erudite: Belloc on the tragedy of the Reformation, the loss of Christendom, the rise of capitalism ... For anyone interested, much more on this theme can also be found in various pieces in the Belloc section of my site: ... O Belloc! O Christendom! ...

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-10 00:00:00 Michael Burwell Hilaire Belloc was an English, Roman Catholic, historian around the turn of the 20th century. He was chums with G.K. Chesterton. They ran a newspaper together, conjured up their own economic theory, called "Distributism", and generally antagonized Bertrand Russell whenever possible. Hint: By "Crisis", he means social crisis. Spoiler: The crisis was the Protestant Reformation. This was the first time I had heard a persuasive case advancing anything negative about the Reformation. It was a little scary for me.