{"product_id":"vergil-father-of-the-west","title":"Vergil: Father of the West","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eBy Theodor Haecker || Translated by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnthony Giambrone, O.P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVergil, Father of the West\u003c\/i\u003e may best be classified as a work transcending classification. As its translator Anthony Giambrone, O.P., remarks in his Introduction: Haecker has written a book about a poet and his poetry which is also “a book about love and work, tragedy, piety, and providence.” To the question, “Vergil—Father of the West? Why Vergil?”—Haecker responds: “It is a title \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecum fundamento in re\u003c\/i\u003e.… Vergil is \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eprinceps\u003c\/i\u003e in every respect.” Vergil is both vision and voice for that order and power called “the West.” Haecker reveals civilization’s urgent need for that vision and voice in order to return to and rest upon its divine foundations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs Augustine said, this \u003c\/em\u003epoeta nobilissimus\u003cem\u003e did not speak simply by or for himself, \u003c\/em\u003enon a se ipso;\u003cem\u003e and if there is one thing Haecker teaches us about the West’s Father, it is this. Vergil points beyond himself with an overflowing fullness.\u003c\/em\u003e (Anthony giambrone, O.P.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p2\"\u003eTo the unabridged translation (the first in English) of the title text, Giambrone has added the essay “On the Foundations of the West” from Haecker’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat Is Man?\u003c\/i\u003e, and crowned it with Vergil’s Fourth \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEclogue\u003c\/i\u003e. Taken together, these elements reveal the ambitious trajectory of Haecker’s project across human culture: “to reawaken in dazed Western minds the visions of our lost poetry of the eternal in man.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheodor Haecker \u003c\/b\u003e(1889–1975) was a German writer, translator, and critic. His work in translating Newman’s \u003ci\u003eGrammar of Assent\u003c\/i\u003e drew him to the Catholic Church, leading to his conversion in 1921. An adamant opponent of the Third Reich, he condemned the Nazi Party in his writings \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Man?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJournal in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Giambrone, O.P., \u003c\/b\u003eis a priest of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Quest for the Historical Christ\u003c\/i\u003e (Catholic University of America) and many other academic and popular publications, as well as the translator of Georges Bernanos’ \u003ci\u003eSaint Dominic\u003c\/i\u003e (Cluny). Fr. Giambrone currently serves as professor of New Testament and vice-director of the École Biblique in Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \u0026amp; E-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Immediately following purchase, an .epub file and a .mobi (Kindle) file are available for download.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685950613\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42861789741150,"sku":"978-1685950613","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-book","offer_id":42861789773918,"sku":"978-1685950614","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/2929\/1614\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--644.jpg?v=1780986919","url":"https:\/\/nez-emporium.com\/products\/vergil-father-of-the-west","provider":"Nez Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}