Sunday, June 21, 2015

"'he is unworthy of the name of father who, having begotten a child into this world, takes no care to beget him also for heaven.'"

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“y que no meresce nombre de padre el que habiendo engendrado su hijo para este mundo, no lo engendra para el cielo.”

     Luis de Granada, O.P., Guia de pecadores (1556-57), lib. 2, cap. 18 (Obras, ed. Justo Cuervo, O.P., tom. 1 (Madrid:  1906), p. 458).  The sinner's guide, trans. F. Lewis (Philadelphia:  Henry McGrath, 1844), 370:  "nor does he deserve the bare name of father, who, after having begotten his son for this world, does not also beget him for the next."
     I was put onto this by Jean-Pierre Batut, "Calling fathers 'father':  usurping the name of God?" Communio:  international Catholic review 36, no. 2 (Summer 2009):  306.

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