It is a shame Dietrich von Hildebrand is not better known in the UK. A famous convert, philosopher and writer on spiritual themes, von Hildebrand (1889-1977) always writes with rare clarity, wisdom and intensity. A couple of years ago I read - and blogged about - von Hildebrand's My Battle With Hitler. For Lent I have decided to read his classic work Transformation in Christ (Ignatius).
I prefer the word “transformation” to “conversion”: the latter is used so often of those who have entered the Church that it has lost its power, whereas the former radiates the supernatural dimension of conversion and points us to our actual goal: not so much joining an institution as (to repeat a quotation from St Paul which is the leitmotif of the book) putting off “the old man...and the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.”
