E. I. Watkin
Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981) was an English writer. A convert to Catholicism in 1908, he founded in 1936 with Eric Gill and Donald Attwater the inter-war Catholic pacifist movement Pax[1]. This movement was prominently supported by Dorothy Day[2].
Life
He studied at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford[3]. He publicly opposed conscription in 1916[4], a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet The Crime of Conscription.
Family
His maternal grandfather was Herbert Ingram; Edward Watkin was a great-uncle on his father’s side[5].
Works
- Some Thoughts on Catholic Apologetics: A Plea for Interpretation (1915)
- A Little Book of Prayers for Peace (1916)
- The Philosophy of Mysticism (1920)
- The Bow in the Clouds: An Essay Towards the Integration of Experience (1931)
- A Philosophy of Form (1935)
- Theism, Agnosticism And Atheism (1936)
- Men and Tendencies (1937)
- The Crime of Conscription (1939)
- The Catholic Center (1939)
- Catholic Art and Culture (1942)
- Praise of Glory (1943)
- The Balance of Truth (1943)
- Poets and Mystics (1953)
- Neglected Saints (1955)
- Roman Catholicism in England from the Reformation to 1950 (1957)
- The Church in Council (1960)
References
- Magdalen Goffin, The Watkin Path: An Approach to Belief, biography by his daughter.
Notes
- ^ Patrick G. Coy, A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker, p.76.
- ^ Catholic Worker Movement - DorothyDay
- ^ Joseph Pearce, Literary Converts (1999), p. 39.
- ^ PDF, p. 173
- ^ The Early History of the Illustrated London News
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1888 |
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1981 |
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