A Catholic Mind Awake

c o n t e n t s

Preface i

Acknowledgments iii

Foreword v

Introduction Who Was Bernard Kelly? 1

PART ONE From the Mind: Metaphysics East and West

1 A Thomist Approach to the Vedanta 19

2 Notes on the Light of the Eastern Religions 29

3 How May We Approach the Spiritual Traditions of the East? 49

4 The Metaphysical Background of Analogy 56

5 Some Considerations on Form 79

6 Obituary of A.K. Coomaraswamy 90

Book Reviews 92

PART TWO From the Heart: Spirituality and Beauty

1 Passage Through Beauty 113

2 Solidarity 124

3 Continuity 127

4 Representation 130

5 A Dialectic of Self-Giving 133

6 Gestant Puellae Viscera 143

7 The Divisions of the Way of the Cross 145

Book Reviews 154

PART THREE From the Muse: Poetry and the Arts

1 The Joy of Chastity in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins 161

2 The Mind and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins 165

Book Reviews 191

PART FOUR For the World: Reflections on Society

1 The Bourgeois Position 209

2 The Return of Abel 217

3 Christians and the Class Struggle 221

4 Synthesis on Social Transformation 229

5 The Basis of Ownership 235

6 Eric Gill’s Social Principles 241

7 Responsibility Again (I–IV) 246

Book Reviews 266

Bibliography of Bernard Kelly 280

Author and Editor 285