Mediaeval Socialism Fenton –Brian Besong

–Brian Besong

so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves

” Sheen plumbs the uniquely profound import of Christ’s preaching and miracles

with a concluding reflection on Church history

Mediaeval Socialism Fenton –Brian BesongBy Bede Jarrett, O. P. By power of its title alone, Mediaeval Socialism is a book certain to provoke. Regardless of how one defines the term socialism, as Bede Jarrett, O. P., notes, it is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions. The question is well worth asking, then: How is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of old time and those which have grown out of present day conditions of life? In this brief