The Latin Clerk, The Life, Word and Travels of Adrian Fortescue - Book Review by Fr John Salter
orientale-lumen.blogspot.com The Life, Work, and Travels of Adrian Fortescue, by Aidan Nicholls, O.P. The Lutterworth Press, P.O.Box 60, Cambridge, CB1 2NT. £25. The cover of this book tells the reader that Father Adrian Fortescue is now perceived as an icon of Catholic traditionalism, facing a crisis of conscience over his affiliation with Liberal Catholicism and objections towards the intellectual conservatism of the papacy. The Latin Clerk thus reveals an interesting discord in Edwardian culture between theological doctrine and secular developments in the historical and natural sciences, and also reflects frequent tensions existing with the Roman Catholic Church of today, making the inner conflicts of Fortescue pertinent to modern society. Not only will this book be of interest to historians and theologians of English cultural developments, but will appeal to students of the Eastern Churches. Through a presentation of F