Bernard Philip Kelly (April 25, 1907—November 2, 1958) was an English Catholic layman who worked in a bank, raised a large family, and regularly penned, over 25 years, philosophical essays and book reviews for the Dominican journal Blackfriars. His friendship with foremost British Thomists and leading distributists of his day, and with the Indian scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy—along with his love for the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins—permitted his short life to become the matrix of a rich body of writings.

Bernard Kelly in the 1950s.

Works

Kelly's inspiration was drawn in part from scholastic philosophy and, in particular, the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. Among the themes developed in his writings were the social and economic theory of Distributism, reflections on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the outlines of a critique of the modern world, and the development of an informed and Christian approach to Eastern religions. His seminal articles on Eastern philosophy and religion were among his last publications:[1]

See also

References

  • Bernard Kelly, A Catholic Mind Awake, ed. with Introduction by Scott Randall Paine, Angelico Press, 2017.
  • William Stoddart, A Scholastic Universalist: The Writings and Thought of Bernard Kelly (1907–1958), New Blackfriars, Volume 76 Issue 897, pp. 455–462 Online text (PDF)

Notes

  1. ↑ See in particular: "Notes on the Light of the Eastern Religions" (Dominican Studies, London, 1954, pp. 254-271; reprinted in Religion of the Heart, Foundation for Traditional Studies, Oakton VA, 1991); "A Thomist Approach to the Vedanta, (Blackfriars XXXVII, no. 430, January 1956); and "The metaphysical background to analogy" (Aquinas Paper No. 28, Blackfriars Publications, London 1958).
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