The Cross and the Crisis Journet salvation in the long run

salvation in the long run

Hope and History

Bernanos had numerous works adapted into film with great critical success

originally a series of lectures given at the beginning of World War II

the role of ideals in cultural evolution

The Cross and the Crisis Journet salvation in the long runBy Fulton J. Sheen The distress of modernity, contends Fulton J. Sheen in The Cross and the Crisis, is fundamentally moral and religious in nature. Men, as G. K. Chestertons famously remarked, invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. The distress of modernity, argues Sheen, is the result of a fear ridden flight from the cross of Jesus Christ, a reckless