Dietrich von Hildebrand - Liturgy and Personality

Liturgy and Personality

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Liturgy and Personality

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Foreword by Bishop Robert Barron

Afterword by Alice von Hildebrand

THE HILDEBRAND PROJECT

Originally published in German as Liturgie und Persnlichkeit.

Salzburg: Anton Pustet, 1933.

Second English Edition:

Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1960.

Published 2016 by Hildebrand Project

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Cataloguing-in-Publication Information

Von Hildebrand, Dietrich, 18891977, author.

[Liturgie und Persnlichkeit. English]

Liturgy and personality / Dietrich von Hildebrand;

foreword by Robert Barron; afterword by Alice von

Hildebrand.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-939773-00-5

1. Catholic ChurchLiturgy. 2. Personality.

I. Translation of: Von Hildebrand, Dietrich, 18891977.

Liturgie und Persnlichkeit. II. Title.

BX1970.v6513 2015 264.02

QBI15-600209

Library of Congress Preassigned Control Number: 2015960078

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Cover Image: The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs, by Fra Angelico, in the National Gallery, London. Image from Restored Traditions.

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE
The Liturgy and the Vocation of Man

CHAPTER TWO
The Essence of Personality

CHAPTER THREE
Liturgy and Personality

CHAPTER FOUR
The Spirit of Communion in the Liturgy

CHAPTER FIVE
The Spirit of Reverence in the Liturgy

CHAPTER SIX
The Spirit of Response-to-Value in the Liturgy

CHAPTER SEVEN
The Spirit of Awakenedness in the Liturgy

CHAPTER EIGHT
The Spirit of Discretio in the Liturgy

CHAPTER NINE
The Spirit of Continuity in the Liturgy

CHAPTER TEN
The Organic Element in the Liturgy

CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Classical Spirit in the Liturgy

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand was born in Florence in 1889, and studied philosophy under Adolf Reinach, Max Scheler, and Edmund Husserl. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1914. He distinguished himself with many publications in moral philosophy, in social philosophy, in the philosophy of the interpersonal, and in aesthetics. He taught in Munich, Vienna, and New York. In the 1930s, he was one of the strongest voices in Europe against Nazism. He died in New Rochelle, New York in 1977.

Hildebrand Project

We advance the rich tradition of Christian personalism, especially as developed by Dietrich von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla (Pope St. John Paul II), in the service of intellectual and cultural renewal.

Our publications, academic programs, and public events introduce the great personalist thinkers and witnesses of the twentieth century. Animated by a heightened sense of the mystery and dignity of the human person, they developed a personalism that sheds new light on freedom and conscience, the religious transcendence of the person, the relationship between individual and community, the love between man and woman, and the life-giving power of beauty. We connect their vision of the human person with the great traditions of Western and Christian thought, and draw from their personalism in addressing the deepest needs and aspirations of our contemporaries. For more information, please visit: www.hildebrandproject.org

Editorial Board

General Editor: John F. Crosby

Franciscan University of Steubenville

Dana Gioia

Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture

University of Southern California

Fritz Wenisch

University of Rhode Island

Roger Scruton

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Josef Seifert

Edith Stein Institute of Philosophy, Granada, Spain

Rocco Buttiglione

John Paul II Chair for Philosophy and History of European Institutions Pontifical Lateran University

Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz

Technische Universitt Dresden, Emerita

Hochschule Heiligenkreuz

Antonio Calcagno

Kings University College at The University of Western Ontario

Joseph Koterski, SJ

Fordham University

Christoph Cardinal Schnborn

Archbishop of Vienna

Rmi Brague

University of Paris, Sorbonne, Emeritus

Romano Guardini Chair of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian

University of Munich, Emeritus

D. C. Schindler

Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family

Washington, DC

John Haldane

University of St. Andrews

Baylor University

Alice von Hildebrand

Widow of Dietrich von Hildebrand

* Student of Dietrich von Hildebrand

Special Thanks

We gratefully acknowledge the vision and generosity of the many friends who have supported our publications and helped bring this particular volume to fruition:

EXTRAORDINARY SUPPORT

James N. Perry, Jr. Robert L. Luddy Howard and Roberta Ahmanson The Catholic Association Foundation Lee and Margaret Matherne

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