The Spirituality of Friedrich von H�gel

London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine.

"CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like Lord Acton, had a private income and an inexhaustible intellectual appetite for Catholic theology and history" (Patrick Allitt, Catholic Converts). His mentoring and wide associations meant that he was swept up in the Modernist controversies that resulted in the excommunication of Alfred Loisy and George Tyrrell. With frontispiece portrait, dated 1903, and Foreword by Bishop B. C. Butler, who credits von Hugel with his own conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. With Whelan's Preface, dated "All Saint's Day, 1970," extensive Notes and a substantial Bibliography of works by and about von Hugel. De licentia Superiorum Ordinis.