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...Among previous winners: Existentialist Philosopher Karl Jaspers, Roman Catholic Theologian Romano Guardini, Painters Marc Chagall and Oscar Kokoschka...
...Murray. The choice is between the permanent "Christian revolution with all its hopes of freedom and justice" and the "reactionary counterrevolution" represented by rationalism. Man can either go on to a "new age of order," guided by the moral law, or he can go back to what Theologian Romano Guardini describes as the "interior disloyalty of modern times" -disloyalty not to a state, an ideal or even a faith, but a betrayal of the "structure of reality itself." In that event, the future will belong to a new incarnation of that "senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless" man whom St. Paul...
Said one of his fans last week: "Guardini is like a Renaissance humanist-he seems to have the key to everything. If he speaks about atomic science, one feels he knows all there is to know about modern physics. He can plumb the depths of Freud or analyze the mysticism of Paul Klee's paintings; he can throw new light on the obscure poetry of Hölderlin and Rilke, or expound the strengths and weaknesses of Communist dialectic. Guardini seems to control the bridges that lead from art, from literature, from philosophy -to religion...
Silence & Dancing. Romano Guardini was born in Verona, Italy, but he was taken to Germany at the age of three, where his Italian diplomat father was posted at the consulate in Munich. He grew up in Mainz, attended the University of Tübingen, where he first began to specialize in biology and physics. But, as he wrote later, "the deeper I went into the study of science, the more I became convinced that there was not the full answer." His parents reluctantly gave him permission to study for the priesthood; he was ordained in 1912, received his doctorate...
...titled The Spirit of the Liturgy. Its theme: "To play a game before God. to perform a work of art; not to create, but to be-that is the deepest meaning of the liturgy." In the '20s, as professor of Christian philosophy at the University of Berlin, Father Guardini was one of the luminaries of an intellectually glittering city that included such disparate men as Producer Max Reinhardt, Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, Boxer Max Schmeling...