{"title":"Valentin Tomberg","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-good-on-the-regeneration-of-fallen-justice-paperback","title":"The Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentin Tomberg was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1900. Having been baptized a Protestant, he entered the Greek Orthodox church shortly before 1933, and, in 1945, became a Roman Catholic. In 1938 Tomberg emigrated to the Netherlands and began actively to lecture on Christological topics. At the beginning of 1944 he moved to Cologne, where he was awarded the title of Doctor of Law for the dissertation here published in English for the first time. This dissertation marked an important turning-point in Tomberg's life: humanistic studies he had presented during his thirties are now replaced by a strict orientation towards a Platonic model of knowledge, and a medieval, so-called \"realism of universals.\" Tomberg came to regard the modern path \u003cem\u003eaway\u003c\/em\u003e from natural law (founded upon religion) and \u003cem\u003etoward\u003c\/em\u003e legal positivism (oriented toward power) as a dismantling of the different levels of law (and at the same time a loss of both the \u003cem\u003eidea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eideal\u003c\/em\u003e of law)-that is, as a process of degeneration or \"fall,\" which he seeks to reverse in the direction of regeneration. He also proposes a new way of organizing the academic study of law, in which the higher levels of law would be included, and in which access to the \u003cem\u003eidea\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eideal\u003c\/em\u003e of law would be restored.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51458362769631,"sku":"9781621386872","price":25.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0CzvLMZ5WF9781621386872.webp?v=1790358799"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-good-on-the-regeneration-of-fallen-justice-hardcover","title":"The Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentin Tomberg was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1900. Having been baptized a Protestant, he entered the Greek Orthodox church shortly before 1933, and, in 1945, became a Roman Catholic. In 1938 Tomberg emigrated to the Netherlands and began actively to lecture on Christological topics. At the beginning of 1944 he moved to Cologne, where he was awarded the title of Doctor of Law for the dissertation here published in English for the first time. This dissertation marked an important turning-point in Tomberg's life: humanistic studies he had presented during his thirties are now replaced by a strict orientation towards a Platonic model of knowledge, and a medieval, so-called \"realism of universals.\" Tomberg came to regard the modern path \u003cem\u003eaway\u003c\/em\u003e from natural law (founded upon religion) and \u003cem\u003etoward\u003c\/em\u003e legal positivism (oriented toward power) as a dismantling of the different levels of law (and at the same time a loss of both the \u003cem\u003eidea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eideal\u003c\/em\u003e of law)-that is, as a process of degeneration or \"fall,\" which he seeks to reverse in the direction of regeneration. He also proposes a new way of organizing the academic study of law, in which the higher levels of law would be included, and in which access to the \u003cem\u003eidea\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eideal\u003c\/em\u003e of law would be restored.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51458363195615,"sku":"9781621386889","price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VfifbSImPe9781621386889.webp?v=1790358800"},{"product_id":"jus-humanitatis-the-right-of-humankind-as-foundation-for-international-law-paperback","title":"Jus Humanitatis: The Right of Humankind as Foundation for International Law - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of 1944, Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973), best-known at the time for his Christological works, moved to Cologne at the invitation of legal scholar Ernst von Hippel, and that same year was awarded the title of Doctor of Law for his dissertation, published by Angelico Press as \u003cem\u003eThe Art of the Good: On the Regeneration of Fallen Justice\u003c\/em\u003e. Tomberg had come to regard the modern path away from a natural law founded upon religion and towards a legal positivism oriented towards power as a degeneration of the different levels of law, a \"fall\" he sought to reverse in the direction of regeneration. In his second jurisprudential work, here published as \u003cem\u003eJus Humanitatis: The Right of Humankind as Foundation for International Law\u003c\/em\u003e, Tomberg presents the history of international law more broadly in such a way that it can serve the peaceful coexistence of all nations on earth. Invoking Thomistic terms, he presents the step-by-step dismantling of the edifice of law as the eclipse of the \u003cem\u003elex divina\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003elex naturalis\u003c\/em\u003e in the so-called \"law of nations\" or international law-to the point that the higher vocation of international law came to be understood as nothing more than a legitimizing of absolute power, which then led to the modern totalitarian state. In this inspired text, Tomberg equips us to set about reversing this degradation and establishing the right or law of \u003cem\u003ehumankind\u003c\/em\u003e as foundation for international law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Tomberg's eyes, the human catastrophe of the Second World War was a consequence of the degeneration of jurisprudence that had begun in the medieval controversy between Realism and Nominalism, continued in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, led to the European revolutions, and culminated in the modern totalitarian state. In the present text, he sought passionately to contribute to a regeneration of jurisprudence.\"-Michael Frensch, author of \u003cem\u003eWeisheit in Person, Die Wiederkunft Christi\u003c\/em\u003e, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this book, written amid the final devastations of WWII, Valentin Tomberg, who along with some other German jurists was regarded as a leading representative of the idea of \u003cem\u003enatural law\u003c\/em\u003e, defended the position that international law-which he conceived as the right or law of\u003cem\u003e humankind as a whole\u003c\/em\u003e-had to stand above the law of states. For him, this meant that external intervention is justified when international law is violated.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Harrie Salman, author of \u003cem\u003eValentin Tomberg and the Ecclesia Universalis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Valentin Tomberg penned this great treatise on international law literally in the ruins of World War II, and one can sense his fear that we may have learned nothing from the horrific conflict. Here Tomberg traces what he calls Hitler's 'spiritual family tree' (which is essentially legal positivism), making the compelling case that only when divine law and natural law are restored to their place above a robust international law, will the international order remain stable and peaceful. Subsequent history has sadly proven his thesis to have been correct.\"-Brian M. McCall, Editor-in-Chief, Catholic Family News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51458368143583,"sku":"9781621389316","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kbwehViimq9781621389316.webp?v=1790358812"},{"product_id":"through-anthroposophy-to-the-universal-church-a-spiritual-memoir-with-letters-from-valentin-tomberg-paperback","title":"Through Anthroposophy to the Universal Church: A Spiritual Memoir, with letters from Valentin Tomberg - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernhard Martin (1900-1985) grew up Germany in what he calls the \"ungodly\" age of the First World War and the post-war crisis. Raised a lukewarm Protestant, in secondary school he came to feel disconnected from spiritual life. He made forays into the academic world, but in the end felt himself a \"poor fool\" with no notion what to do in life. This crisis led to several years at a sanitarium. After returning to university, a friend introduced him to the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner and the \"Christian Community,\" a movement for religious renewal founded under Steiner's inspiration. These perspectives rescued him from his crisis and led to a strong recovery in soul and spirit. Between 1942 and 1944, Martin encountered the writings, then the person, of the Christian esotericist Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973), which led to an enduring friendship during which Tomberg introduced him to the spirituality of the Catholic Church. In 1946, Martin converted to the Catholicism; but, in contrast to Tomberg, elected to remain connected with the Anthroposophical Movement until the end of his life. This book tells the gripping tale of that journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A work of moral genius... Its true tolerance (i.e., an understanding unsullied by fear or hatred) of the 'heresies' of the modern age, and its confidence that Catholic Christianity is a 'powerful competitor' able to fully engage with all the intellectual trends of the present, offers intimate insight into just how it can be that 'all roads lead to Rome.' I most prize in the book the unconquerable weapon of modesty and honesty... It fills a gap I had perhaps once thought it my duty to fill-and now it has been done in a way I could have striven for, but never attained.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eValentin Tomberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eLazarus: The Miracle of Resurrection in World History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The German edition of this book had a deep resonance in Catholic and Anthroposophical circles. It contains a uniquely thoughtful and conscientious discussion of two spiritual paths that, according to its author, require mutual understanding.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eHarrie Salman PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eValentin Tomberg and the\u003c\/em\u003e Ecclesia Universalis: \u003cem\u003eA Biography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moving from mainstream (if somewhat uninspired) Protestant Christian to Anthroposophist to devoted Catholic, Bernhard Martin's tale is that of a spiritual seeker, hungry for Christian truth, who interprets his path with moral and intellectual scrupulousness. 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