Nazareth or Social Chaos

Distilling the work of Father Vincent McNabb's years of preaching in London's Hyde Park, this challenging and entertaining book examines urbanized and industrialized life. The arguments claim that urban life has a deleterious effect on nature, community, family, and the spirit and offer a challenge to "flee to the fields," seeking a life not dominated by technology and artificial schedules but by the forces of God and nature. Newly edited and annotated, this edition stands as an important work of English social criticism.

Fr. Vincent McNabb, OP, was a Dominican theologian and social critic of 19th- and 20th-century England and the author of numerous classic works of spirituality and history, including The Catholic Church and Philosophy, Church and Reunion, Craft of Prayer, Faith and Prayer, and Geoffrey Chaucer. Joseph Kelly is editorial director of the Universe Media Group and the editor of Church Building, School Building, The Universe Catholic Weekly, and Who’s Who in Catholic Life. Dr. Cicero Bruce is a professor of English at Southern Catholic College and the author of Crowd Culture. He lives in Dawsonville, Georgia.