The Church in the Flesh

A book by Ida Görres from 1950 now in English for the first time.

In 2023, Cluny Media published the first-ever translation into English of The Church in the Flesh by Ida Friederike Görres.

In six letters to Catholics desiring to follow the spirit of the age, Ida Görres eloquently explains how and why the Church, by contrast, exists across time both in her essence and “in the flesh” from day to day. Along the way, Görres guides them and all of us ever deeper into the heart of the Church.

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In a review on Amazon, a reader shares his experience of the book:

The appearance of The Church in the Flesh in English … is an exceptionally important milestone in what one can only hope will be a major rediscovery of one of the most important twentieth-century thinkers on the Church and its saints…

Ida Friederike Görres, in The Church in the Flesh (1950), is unblinking in her remarkable response. In the form of “letters” addressed to those with agonizing questions about the Church, Görres is honest, direct, perceptive, and finally, inspiring.

In a review at The European Conservative, Fr. Ephrem Reese, O.P. writes, “Görres belongs to a post-war moment when the Germanophone Catholic Church teemed with literary virtuosos.” He says the book reflects how one can get through “doubt of Church practice” and “come out refined by a love that could only be supernatural.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A LECTURE about The Church in the Flesh

Delivered in Washington, DC on April 18, 2024, by Dr. Jennifer Bryson.

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