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All Things Made New explores the Christian
mysteries in the tradition of St. John the Evangelist, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus, by studying the symbolism,
cosmology, and meaning of the Book of Revelation, as well as the prayers and meditations of the Rosary, including
the Apostles’ Creed and the Our Father. These reflections lead us step by step to the foot of the Cross, and to
the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, where all things are made new.
ISBN-10: 1597311294 Specifications: 226 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-1597311298 MSRP: $16.95 / £10.95
Format: Trade Paperback Pub. Date: October 2011
Stratford Caldecott is the editor
of Second Spring and Humanum, and one of the editors of Magnificat in the UK. His books include The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God (Crossroad,
2006) and Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education (Brazos, 2009). He lives in Oxford. For more, see www.secondspring.co.uk.
From reviews of The Seven Sacraments:
“Stratford Caldecott has the poetic sensibility and the metaphysical audacity we
would expect from a Christian Platonist – for it
is in that succession that I see him, a combination of Dionysius the Areopagite in the age of the Fathers and the
Oxford Inklings
in our own.” — Aidan Nichols
“Stratford Caldecott goes bravely into the mystical depths of Christian life and
takes his readers with him, eyes wide open.
There are no shortcuts to the mystical life, but this book is an overwhelming enticement, and that might be half
the battle.”
— Scott Hahn
Advance Review
"A wide-ranging, exciting, and erudite exploration of the Christian mysteries. Stratford
Caldecott, with insight and patience, leads us through the complexities of the Book of Revelation, the Stations
of the Cross, the Rosary, and much more, revealing as he goes along the radiant beauty and truth of these ancient
writings and practices and their profound significance for today's believers. A splendid achievement." — Philip Zaleski (editor of the Best Spiritual Writing series).
"This is a unique book, and one that deserves an audience. It is a partly a book on the Apocalypse, but cannot
be filed directly on the biblical studies shelf. It equally belongs on a shelf of spiritual direction, on a shelf
of metaphysics ranging from Thomas to Bulgakov, it is at home in both Latin scholasticism and Orthodox philosophy,
it is a guide to morality and the virtues, it opens up biblical hermeneutics — particularly by a symbology of numbers
— and most of all it orientated toward liturgical life. But it is liturgical life beating at the center of the
cosmos, which is what John's apocalypse is really about: new life, renewed creation, deification. Rather than surrendering
the book of Revelation over to the fundamentalists, who each read it idiosyncratically, the book deserves to be
reclaimed by the average Catholic reader (not just the specialist historian) and this unusually rich approach makes
this possible." — David Fagerberg, University of Notre Dame.
“Stratford Caldecott’s book takes the idealist school of interpretation to new cosmic heights by stressing the
unity of myth and history within the framework of Christian revelation. It tames the otherwise occult ideas of
Pythagoreanism and other similar philosophies, purifying them of their anti-Christian tendencies by affirming the
mystery of the Incarnation. Caldecott explains with great insight, including the use of number mysticism, the full
flowering of Christ’s coming in the flesh through the Church, as unveiled in her liturgy, her creed, her ethics,
and her tradition of the Christian mysteries to the end of time. An especially interesting aspect of this unveiling
is the threefold manifestation of the Bride of the Apocalypse, through the Virgin Mary (the spouse of the Holy
Spirit), the Church (the Bride of Christ), and Sophia, who is the New Creation and Bride of the Father offered
to Him by the action of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.” —Eduardo
P. Olaguer (author of Son of God, Son of Man).
Book Extracts
Contents
Initiation
The Book of Unveiling
Creation in the Book of Revelation
The Cosmic Order
A Book of Spiritual Exercises
The Logos Rides to War
Entering the City
Jewel of Faith: Credo
The Holy Way
The Lord's Prayer
The Rose Garden
Mysteries of the Rosary
The Way of the Cross
The Final Mystery
Appendices
1: Revelation as Liturgical Commentary
2: On Reading the Bible
3: Gematria — The Real Bible Code
4: Margaret Barker's Temple Theology
5: The Seven Sacraments
Bibliography
Section from the book —
Initiation
Section from the book - Chapter 1 - The Book of Unveiling
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Version: 21st July 2013
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