'An admirably judicious and comprehensive - and long overdue - study of one of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, whose presence remains both spiritually and politically significant for an age of violently confused international relations'? "" Rowan Williams
Roger Lipsey, an art historian, editor, and author, has written on a wide range of topics and intellectual figures. He was the general editor of the monumental three-volume edited works of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Princeton University Press, 1978) and has edited and co-authored several books, among them An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art (Random House, 1989) and Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (New Seeds, 2006). He is director of the Society for Myth and Tradition, the publisher of Parabola magazine.