Spiritual Letters - by John Chapman (Paperback)

About the Book

Abbott Chapman's Spiritual Letters, collected and edited posthumously by Dom Roger Hudleston, have been read and found of profound help by countless thousands since they were first published almost half a century ago.

Book Synopsis

Abbott Chapman's Spiritual Letters, collected and edited posthumously by Dom Roger Hudleston, have been read and found of profound help by countless thousands since they were first published almost half a century ago.

This book includes a range of Abbot Chapman's letters both to lay people, including two married ladies and the editor of The Dublin Review, and to religious such as a Benedictine monk, a Servite nun and a Jesuit Scholastic.

In his new introduction, Sebastian Moore OSB says 'As a guide to praying, the Letters are superb. As a guide to living, too, Chapman is decades ahead of his time.'

Review Quotes

"Spiritual Letters was probably the single most influential book for me in my twenties, and still is." --Archbishop Rowan Williams, The Tablet

"Freshness, lucidity, humour and deep sprituality...Will find its right place besides Fenelon, St. Francis de Sales and de Cassade." --Theology

"Open it anywhere and find inspiration and that calm which only comes from God." --Zealandia

"Shows deep knowledge of the human soul and wide experience of the soul's problems." --Standard

About the Author

John Chapman OSB (1865-1933) was an English Roman Catholic priest and a New Testament and patristics scholar. He was the 4th Abbot of Downside Abbey of the English Benedictine Congregation from 1929 until his death.