A harsh and dreadful love;: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
by William D. Miller
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Marquette University Press is pleased to reissue William Miller's pioneering history of the Catholic Worker movement. Originally published thirty years ago, it was the first book to draw upon the movement's archives at Marquette University, to which Dorothy Day had granted Miller access soon after the records' arrival in March of 1962. Subsequently, works by Miller and other scholars (including his students) have augmented our knowledge of the Catholic Worker's history, major figures, show more philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, and present ministries. There are now over 150 Catholic Worker communities spread across the United States and in Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and New Zealand. show lessTags
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More a hagiography than a biography, A Harsh and Dreadful Love (1973) was published in Day's own lifetime (she died in 1980) and was de facto an "authorized" biography even if not officially so. I also find annoying the author's tendency always to refer to Day as "Dorothy Day" (never simply by surname, unlike his sometime references to other individuals).
Also, A Harsh and Dreadful Love does not contain any footnoting of sources, a failing for which the author makes a (to me) unsuccessful apology in an appended and very inadequate listing of sources.
One particular like: the chapter on Ammon Hennacy, whose name I knew but nothing else.
Also, A Harsh and Dreadful Love does not contain any footnoting of sources, a failing for which the author makes a (to me) unsuccessful apology in an appended and very inadequate listing of sources.
One particular like: the chapter on Ammon Hennacy, whose name I knew but nothing else.
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- People/Characters
- Dorothy Day
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
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- 261.8 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and socioeconomic problems
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- BX810 .M5 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Catholic Church Periodicals. Societies, councils, congresses, etc.
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