Dominican provincial · Theologian and historian

Bede Jarrett, O.P.

1881–1934

An English Dominican who wrote lucidly on the Holy Spirit, medieval society, and the history of the Order.

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Life & thought

Bede Jarrett served as provincial of the English Dominicans and helped renew the Order’s intellectual and public life. His writing moves easily between spiritual theology, medieval history, preaching, and questions of social order; its historical judgments should be read in their early twentieth-century setting.

Works in the Library

3

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1918 · Spiritual theology · 24 meditations

The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul

Bede Jarrett, O.P.

A clear Dominican guide to divine indwelling, grace, the gifts, and the dignity of the Christian soul.

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1914 · Social history · 7 chapters

Mediaeval Socialism

Bede Jarrett, O.P.

A historical study of medieval property, guilds, schoolmen, lawyers, reformers, and almsgiving.

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1921 · Institutional history

The English Dominicans, 1221–1921

Bede Jarrett, O.P.

Seven centuries of Dominican life in England, written for the province’s founding anniversary.

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