The Life of Christ : Lovely Red & Gold Leather Binding : Illustrated : New York

The Life of Christ

By Reverend John A. O'Brien (The University of Notre Dame)

Published by John J. Crawley & Co, New York, 1957. Spectacular gilt-stamped red leather binding by Fogel & Erfurt based on medieval design over bevel-edged boards., large 8vo, gilt turn-ins, gilt to all page edges, moire silk endpapers, 623 pages, profusely illustrated in colour.

CONDITION
A good copy with fractional rubbing to the top of the spine. Endpapers very good, all contents present and pages very clean throughout, no previous ownership marks. Overall a very good copy.

Reverend or Father John A. O'Brien (1893–1980), whose full name was John Anthony O'Brien, was an influential progressive American Catholic scholar, pamphleteer and writer.

In total, O'Brien published over forty books. Among them were The White Harvest (1927) and Catholics and Scholarship (1938), influential collections of essays by participants at symposia he organized. In 1938 he published a book about Catholicism directed at non-Catholics called The Faith of Millions, which became a best-seller. Also among his most popular publications were the five books in a series called The Road to Damascus, published between 1949 and 1956, in which seventy-eight prominent converts to Catholicism gave accounts of what had led them to the Church. The contributors included Evelyn Waugh, Clare Booth Luce, Avery Dulles, Dorothy Day, Raïssa Maritain, Thomas Merton, Ronald Knox and Leonard Cheshire. O'Brien remained at the University of Illinois for twenty-two years. In 1939, he spent a year at Oxford University and published Thunder from the Left, a critique of communism. For the rest of his life he taught at the University of Notre Dame and wrote. His work often focused on the compatibility of science and Catholicism. He published two books on evolution, Evolution and Religion (1932) and God and Evolution (1961)