The Church of the Lord : On the Nature and Mission of the Church de Romano Guardini; Translated by Stella Lange - 1966

Chicago, Illinois: Henry Regnery Company, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First published in German as ""Die Kirche Des Herrn"" in 1965 by Werkbund-Verlag, Wurzburg. This English translation: 1966; no other printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold colored spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. 114 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good; orange paper with shelf & edge wear; loss at head & heel of spine and corners. Not price clipped ($3.95.) The brief bio of Romano Guardini notes that as a German citizen during the time when being Christian was unpopular, he ""identified himself with a people in grave spiritual stress and honestly sought to meet the spiritual crisis of men of all denominations as he courageously spoke out in Berlin, threatened from without by air raids and from within his church by the ever present secret police .... in a period of almost absolute thought control, he laid the foundations of a theology that would honestly confront the issues of special importance to contemporary man."" He begins with the Preface ""....by calling the reader's attention to the fact that this book consists of reflections. ....seek only to provide a deeper insight into those aspects of the Church which seem particularity important to the author.""