OF CHRIST BY DOM ANSCAR VONIER, O.S.B. ABBOT OF BUCKFAST SECOND IMPRESSION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1916 All rights reserved Gift of B.H. Lennon Cum librum cui titulus The Personality of Christ' a Rmo P. Anschario Vonier, Abbate Congregationis Nostrae, anglico sermone exaratum, Rmus P. Abbas Thomas Bergh, Censor a Nobis deputatus, recognoverit et in lucem edi posse probaverit, facultatem facimus ut typis mandetur, si iis ad quos pertinet ita videbitur. Datum Sublaci in Protocoenobio S. Scholasticae, V., die 26 Junii 1914. D. MAURUS M. SERAFINI, O.S.B., FOREWORD THE four Gospels are the books most written about and most commented on in our own days. No age has produced anything superior, in finished scholarship, to the Gospel literature of our times. Even those exegetes from whom the fulness of the Christian faith is not to be expected are mostly reverent and often exhibit learning of the highest quality. Indeed, the modern system of 'Meditation,' on the other hand, as an integral part of spiritual and ascetical life, has produced an endless variety of books in which Christ's Life is set forth in a way that ought to be most efficacious in making us understand the Gospels, as they are ransacked by the writers of 'Meditations' in order to compel us to more intimate love for, and more close imitation of, Christ. Some of those productions are really superior studies of the wonderful character of Christ, and they give us what mere exegetical learning could never give— an insight into Christ's intimate Life. The present work is neither exegetical, nor apologetical, nor 787425 |