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Article: Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome.(Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- September 22, 1998
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Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome. By Patrick Allitt. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. 343 pp. $35.00.
Patrick Allitt gathers the stories of the converts who created the culture that English-speaking Catholic intellectuals inherit. These converts were too insightful to accept the "progressive" social darwinism of their era, too single-minded to rest satisfied with the ideological compromises of establishment Protestantism and Anglicanism, too scholarly to entertain biblical literalism, too individualist to be deterred by the declasse status of their new religion, and too broad-minded to be comfortable with the ...