Kinships by Antonin Sertillanges, OP, translated by the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, Menlo Park, California, 234 pages
In considering the nature of the world and the moral order, Fr Sertillanges never forgets that it is a natural order animated by love. Kinships reflects on that love and the response it demands, for it is nothing less than the charity of Christ, a love of "renunciation and generosity", not self-indulgence. It is in this light that he reflects on the bonds of religion and society, not as chains that enslave, but as our means of escape from selfishness.
Whether read on its own or in conjunction with Recollection and Rectitude, Kinships is involving, if a bit uneven.
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