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"I HAVE PASSED THROUGH A PERIOD OF RELIGIOUS CRISIS, I HAVE THOUGHT MUCH ON RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS, AND I OFFER HERE MY PERSONAL REACTION TO THAT CRISIS" First edition of M.D. Petre's autobiography, a philosophical memoir of the Modernist Crisis in the early twentieth-century Church. Uncommon. Maude Dominica Petre was born into an old Catholic Recusant family (a family member went on to… Read more about this item

"TO HAVE REMAINED INDEFINITELY AS AN ANGLICAN WOULD NOW MEAN FOR ME SPIRITUAL DEATH" First edition recounting Edward Charles Rich's 1956 "submission to the Catholic and Roman Church," in the original typographic dust jacket. Rich's Anglo-Catholicism grew into an Anglo-Papalism, driven by a desire for unity and a need for authority. The text, divided into nine chapters, concludes with Rich's epiphany:… Read more about this item

FORTE SCUTUM SALUS DUCUM: "A STRONG SHIELD IS THE SALVATION OF LEADERS" First edition of this two-part biography of Adrian Fortescue, "the greatest authority on the liturgy of the Roman Rite the English-speaking world has ever known" (Michael Davies) and the founder of The Church of St. Hugh of Lincoln in Letchworth. Complete in the uncommon original dust jacket. Adrian Fortescue was… Read more about this item