SALESIAN LITERATURE

A Man to Heal the Differences: Essays and Talks on SFS

by Elisabeth Stopp

ISBN: 0-916101-22-3 (1998)


“This is a most attractive book and should appeal to a wide audience, both Catholic and Protestant. As an author, Dr. Stopp has some of her saint's qualities: a beautiful prose style, a capacity to 'heal differences' in charity without compromise of the truth, a lightness of touch that takes the reader into profound subjects almost without noticing. There is much here that is fresh and exciting."

-John Saward, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, PA

"As a scholar of Salesian spirituality, I often turn to the writings of Elisabeth Stopp to guide and inform me in my work. It was thus with anticipation that I began to read this collection. I was not disappointed. There is invaluable information here."

-Wendy M.Wright, Creighton University

No scholar has done more than the late Elisabeth Stopp to make St. Francis de Sales known, understood, and appreciated in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. This volume collects ten talks and essays by Dr. Stopp delivered or published over four decades. These pieces focus on De Sales' education at the Jesuit Collège de Clermont in Paris, attitudes to friendship, literary art, ecumenism, reception in Anglican England, and links with other major figures of the Christian tradition, such as St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Ávila, and Cardinal Newman.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD: M.N.L.Couve de Murville, Archbishop of Birmingham (U.K.)

PREFACE: Joseph F.Power,O.S.F.S.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF PLATES

INTRODUCTION: St. Francis de Sales(1567-1622) (From Dr. Stopp's introduction to her translation of St. Francis de Sales, Selected Letters [London/ New York,1960],15-33)

CHRONOLOGY: (From Dr. Stopp's edition and translation of St. Francis de Sales: A Testimony by St. Chantal [London/Hyattsville,1967],173-74)

ESSAYS

  1. Francis de Sales at Clermont College: A Jesuit Education in Sixteenth-Century Paris (Salesian Studies, vol. 6, no.1[Winter 1969):42-63)

  2. “Meditations on the Church (1595-96)” (Salesian Studies, vol. 4, no. 4 [Autumn 1967]:53-69

  3. “The Art of the Writer” (The Month, new series, vol. 3, no.1 January 1967: 46-52)

  4. “Healing Differences: St. Francis de Sales in Seventeenth-Century England” (Salesian Studies, vol. 3, no. 4 [Autumn 1966]:26-45; reprinted with some alterations in The Month, new series, vol. 38, nos. 1-2 [July-August 1967]: 51-71)

  5. “St. Francis de Sales: Attitudes to Friendship” (The Downside Review 113 [1995]: 175-92)

  6. “The First Biography (1624)” (Modern Language Review,62[1967]:226-37; reprinted with some alterations in Salesian Studies, vol. 5, no.2 [Spring 1968]: 50-63)


TALKS

  1. “Medieval Affinities: St. Francis of Assisi” (Talk given in the United States and England)

  2. “Spanish Links: St. Francis de Sales and St. Teresa of Ávila” (Talk given in 1986 at a Carmel in Wales and in Visitation monasteries in England)

  3. “Cora d cor loquitur. Newman and St. Francis de Sales" (Talk given to the Friends of Cardinal Newman at the Birmingham Oratory on 27 October 1987; a condensed version was published in The Ransomer, vol. 29, no. 8 [1987]: 5-10, and a French translation of the entire text, in Bulletin des Amis de Newman, No. 5 |November 19891: 3-14).

  4. “The Context of Ecumenism” (Talk given at Visitation monasteries in the United States)


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