Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole (Book 5/Collected Works)

by Carol Jackson Robinson | Foreword by Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

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Table of Contents
Endorsements

Carol Jackson Robinson Collected Works · Book 5

Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole

The Integrity Years · 1946–1956

by Carol Jackson Robinson
Foreword by Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

Integrity Inc., New York All Integrity articles Book reviews and editorials St. Thomas and the lay apostolate

The great Integrity volume: Carol Robinson’s searching, vigorous, and often startlingly prescient attempt to judge modern American life by the light of the Incarnation, grace, St. Thomas, and the demands of the lay apostolate.

supernatural life · Catholic Action · penance · work · family · culture · Thomistic realism

“But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.”

— Matt. 9:22

✠ OVERVIEW ✠

Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole gathers the Integrity writings of Carol Jackson Robinson, the American Catholic laywoman, editor, and Thomistic thinker whose conversion to the Faith gave her a fierce sense that every corner of modern life must be brought under the kingship of Christ.

These essays belong to the immediate postwar years, but they read with startling contemporary force. Robinson writes on Catholic Action, the supernatural life, work, social reform, contemplation, penance, education, money, modern psychology, Protestantism, the family, television, and the decay of Western society.

This volume includes all of Robinson’s articles for Integrity, along with her book reviews and editorials from October 1951 to March 1952. New editor’s footnotes are included throughout the book, and Chapter 3 preserves illustrations by Ed Willock.

It is a book for readers who want Catholic thought to be more than private devotion: a book about grace, culture, economic life, spiritual order, and the responsibility of the laity to restore Christ to the ordinary domains from which He has been expelled.

❦ WHY THIS VOLUME MATTERS ❦

A lay Catholic mind

Robinson writes as a serious laywoman applying Catholic truth to the concrete structures of modern life.

Thomistic realism

Her essays insist that grace perfects nature and that Catholic life must not be sealed off from work, culture, and society.

The lay apostolate

The book makes great demands on lay Catholics, especially in the face of secularism’s organized power.

Still urgent

Written more than sixty years ago, the essays still challenge liberal, technocratic, and impersonal assumptions.

Inside the volume

Articles from 1946–1952 · Book reviews · Editorials from October 1951–March 1952 · New editor’s footnotes · Ed Willock illustrations in Chapter 3 · Articles marked † never before republished

✠ FROM THE BOOK ✠

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No matter what the topic we were treating in the magazine we always tried to see it in the light of Christian principle, solidly based on St. Thomas, whom we never found wanting in criteria.

Preface

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How to reconvert a post-Christian Western world to Catholicism? This seems to be the most important question in the Church, to which all other problems are related.

The Leaven

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The normal man is the hierarchical man, of whom the exemplar is the saint.

A Christian Abnormal Psychology

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Christ has been thrust out of the layman’s domain; hence the logical instrument by which He will be reinstated is the layman.

The Two Enemies of the Church

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EITHER THE U.N. IS WRONG, OR OUR LADY IS WRONG.

The Pertinence of Penance

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The Christian idea is vocation; our commercial reality is job-hunting.

Job Hunting and Vocation

✦ BOOK DETAILS ✦

Author

Carol Jackson Robinson

Volume

Book 5 / Collected Works

Foreword

Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

Period

1946–1956

Paperback ISBN

978-1-7770523-0-0

Hardcover ISBN

978-1-989905-78-4

For Catholics who still think the world must be won for Christ

A major volume in Carol Jackson Robinson’s collected works: demanding, unsentimental, richly Catholic, and animated by the conviction that grace must transform not merely private devotion, but life itself.
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INTEGRITY

1946

Complete Table of Contents

Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole

The Integrity Years · 1946–1956

by Carol Jackson Robinson
Foreword by Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

34 main essays Book Reviews Editorials 1946–1952 contents

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A chronological guide to Robinson’s Integrity writings: from the supernatural meaning of daily life to Catholic Action, work, social reform, penance, television, and the crisis of Western society.

Entries marked † have never been republished

✠ FRONT MATTER ✠

Editor’s Note xi

Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

❦ CONTENTS BY YEAR ❦

1946

1946 p. 1

1. The Frustration of the Incarnation 3

2. The Leaven 14

1947

1947 p. 27

3. A Christian Abnormal Psychology 29

4. Contemporary American Protestantism 76

5. I’d Rather Be a Menial in the House of the Lord, than to Dwell Among Princes 90

6. Man’s Providence† 103

7. Sins of Flesh and Commerce 110

8. The Thirst for Theology† 121

9. Secular Education—Some Years After† 133

10. Why Aren’t Americans Contemplative? 144

11. The Pertinence of Penance 154

12. The Death of Western Society 162

1948

1948 p. 169

13. Job Hunting and Vocation 171

14. The Good News—Plain and Sugared† 178

15. The Science of Temptation 185

16. The Evolution of Social Work 194

17. How Modern Man Became Merry† 205

18. The Impotence of Money Today† 210

19. The Age of Lay Sanctity 218

20. The Tragedy of Modern Woman† 227

1949

1949 p. 237

21. The Two Enemies of the Church† 239

22. The Problem of the Newman Club† 251

23. Christian Vocational Guidance 262

24. The Unity of the World† 271

1950

1950 p. 279

25. Catholic Action and Responsibility 281

26. It All Goes Together 289

27. The Rainmakers† 304

28. The Servant Problem† 316

1951

1951 p. 323

29. Did We Never Have It So Good? 325

30. About Television 335

31. Religious Fanaticism† 350

32. The Crisis 364

1952

1952 p. 401

33. Optimism† 403

34. The 100 Neediest Cases† 412

✦ ADDITIONAL SECTIONS ✦

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Book Reviews

Book Reviews 419

A substantial section showing Robinson’s critical engagement with Catholic, literary, social, and theological works.

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Editorials

Editorials (October 1951–March 1952) 573

The closing section preserves Robinson’s editorial voice from the final years represented in the volume.

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A record of Catholic sanity in an age of modern disorder

From the Incarnation and the lay apostolate to television, temptation, social work, money, Catholic Action, and the crisis of the West: this volume gathers Robinson’s Integrity witness in full.
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INTEGRITY

1946

Praise for Carol Jackson Robinson

Endorsements for Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole

The Integrity Years · 1946–1956

by Carol Jackson Robinson
Foreword by Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

Integrity Inc. Lay Catholic thought Culture, morality, and modernity Thomistic clarity

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Four scholars and Catholic writers commend Robinson’s recovered Integrity essays as a bold, sane, and deeply Catholic account of the lay state, modernity, and the Christian life in the midst of an anti-Christian culture.

Catholic anthropology · St. Thomas Aquinas · social criticism · the lay apostolate

✠ ENDORSEMENTS ✠

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Sadly lost to recent Catholic memory—but no longer, thanks to the tireless work of Arouca Press—the pages of Integrity presented post-World-War-II American Catholicism with a vigorous critique of the flaccid complacency of Americanized Catholic life, the sequestering of the life of grace from public morality, and the ever-present temptation to prostrate before the gods of the marketplace as though they presented civilization with its highest good through the material progress that they promise. Yet, Integrity’s message was not at all negative in its primordial inspiration. Rather, as will be clear to any open-minded and fair reader of the honest essays (and numerous book reviews) presented in this volume, its founders, editors, and authors were striving to articulate a robust, adult, informed, and sane account of the lay state, lived in full maturity and in line with its complete supernatural grandeur. Reflecting upon these pages, one will draw much inspiration for how to take up today—doubtlessly in a renewed manner, though sharing much with Integrity’s sane wisdom—the task of articulating the Christian life in the midst of a culture that is even more anti-Christian than that which Robinson et al. critiqued with such insight, force, and true charity.

—Matthew K. Minerd, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Moral Theology, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Pittsburgh, PA

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Though written seventy and more years ago, these essays come across as amazingly fresh and timely. Indeed, Carol Robinson wrote in such a way that her contemporaries don’t seem to be Jacques Maritain and Thomas Merton so much as Rod Dreher and Eugene McCarraher. Running throughout the essays and reviews here collected is an earnest and sincere search for a properly Catholic anthropology as Robinson interrogates many of the spectres of the age—Capitalism no less than Communism, psychoanalysis no less than materialism. She does so with the combined zeal of a convert conjoined to the perspicacity of a resolute seeker after the truth.

—Michael Martin
author of Transfiguration: Notes Toward a Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything.

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Carol Robinson's vigor and independence of mind is on full display in this collection, along with her love for the Faith and her concern for her fellow-countrymen. The pieces provide a vivid picture of the period after the Second World War and before the Sixties—of our failings as moderns and Americans, and the diversity, vitality, and seriousness of attempts among Catholic thinkers and activists to find a remedy. The result is a comprehensive collection, with never a dull moment and no end of lessons for Catholics today.

— James Kalb
author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI, 2008), and Against Inclusiveness (Angelico Press, 2013)

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While she may not (yet) be a household name among Catholics, the resurrection and compilation of the work of Carol Robinson is an intellectual windfall for the Church. This volume is a must-read for the discerning and intellectually curious Catholic. Robinson’s work is characterized by a robust and wide-reaching critique of modernity which is remarkably pertinent to the challenges that Christians face in our own time. With a penetrating intellect and a deep knowledge of Catholic teaching (and especially the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas), Robinson’s writing is eminently readable, at once both clear and refreshingly bold! This collection is a veritable treasure trove of wisdom on culture, morality, the spiritual life, and all subjects of import to the thinking Christian. Certainly, the reader will not only read but will come back to this book time and again.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill, Ph.D.
Teaching Faculty, Thomas Aquinas College, Northfield, MA.

Lay state

A robust account of lay Catholic life in its supernatural grandeur.

Anthropology

A search for a properly Catholic account of man and modern society.

Catholic memory

A recovery of writings sadly lost to recent Catholic memory.

St. Thomas

A collection marked by the thought of the Angelic Doctor.

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Praise for a recovered Catholic treasure

A page of praise for Robinson’s insight, courage, Catholic anthropology, critique of modernity, and clear-eyed love for the Faith.