**The Way of the Lamb
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The Spirit of Childhood and the End of the Age
**By John Saward **
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In the pre-Christian world, children were slain on pagan altars, and now, in the post-Christian world of the affluent West, children are again the object of adult hostility. In the U.S.A. the abuse of children has been called a “national emergency”, while in almost every country on earth the killing of children still unborn has become an ideology of “choice”.
In this challenging book, John Saward examines the work of several Roman Catholic writers, including St. Thérèse of Lisieux, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Peguy, Georges Bernanos and Hans Urs von Balthasar who rose up in defense and celebration of childhood. This is a ground-breaking work in the theology of childhood and the analysis of modernity.
T & T Clark ordering information for UK and worldwide residents (except USA & Canada) ISBN 0 567 08677 1, paperback 192pp
Residents in USA and Canada: orders to Ignatius Press: Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco.
REVIEWS
“The clarity of Saward’s style, the bounty of his sources, and the profundity of his topic—the sacredness of human life, especially the life of the child—make The Way of the Lamb a tour de force of insight and perspicacity necessary for us all. I highly recommend it.”
—John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of New York
“One of the most original and insightful books of recent years. A singular beauty and intellectual passion describes the elegance of spiritual childhood and the terrible darkness of a world at war against children. Saward’s account of St. Therese of Lisieux is superior to anything written about that new Doctor.”
—Fr. George William Rutler, Author, Crisis of Saints
‘John Saward has written what almost amounts to a manifesto for spritual survival in our time, painting a compelling picture of the crisis of our age.’
Leonie Caldecott, The Catholic Herald
‘John Saward is an unsung hero of contemporary English Catholicism. The beautifully crafted essays on writers of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries which make up the substance of this book can and should be read as contributions to scholarly literature. But by means of them John Saward is asking from his readers a deeper and more effective recognition of the everlasting youthfulness of God, Christ, Our Lady and the Church. In an often tired and jaded Western Christendom, it is a plea that will reward heeding.’
Aidan Nichols, Blackfriars, Cambridge, The Tablet
'John Saward writes books of a kind no other British theologian does. What makes him distinctive is the unembarrassed retrieval of certain highly-charged spiritual writers and themes, combined with a firm dogmatic underpinning. This is a doctrinally secure, exuberant Catholicism that proposes to change lives and be counter-cultural.
Robert Ombres OP, New Blackfriars
