Nazareth or Social Chaos
The second of McNabb's primary works of social philosophy and cultural criticism. The McNabbian theme of the contrast between the brutal, insane, hyper-mechanized and over-industrialized "modern" world, and the sanity, naturalness, wisdom, peace, and humility of Nazareth as the setting for the Incarnation comes through with typically inspiring, enlightening persuasive power.
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The Restoration of Christian Culture
Senior's sequel to his well-known and popular Death of Christian Culture -- fittingly entitled the Restoration -- examines a few of the elements essential for understanding in aiming towards a restoration of the culture of the West bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome and nurtured by the Church. His prose is characteristically excellent and his judgements sharp and critical.
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An Essay on the Economic Effects of the Reformation
Was the world always irreparably divided between the dead-end poles of Left vs. Right, Capitalist vs. Communist? Or was there in our Western past an integral and harmonious social and political—no less than religious—creed? In this concise but persuasive essay, Dr. O’Brien says there was. And that such a creed can be recovered, with the restoration of the social philosophy that once inspired it.
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