The Sin of the Angel Liturgy to submit to Henry VIII’s

to submit to Henry VIII’s claims of supreme power

Briel | Afterword by Christopher O

before we know why it applies

and detailed explanatory notes that ground the poem in traditional criticism and the Catholic intellectual tradition

The Sin of the Angel Liturgy to submit to Henry VIII’sBy Jacques Maritain Disparaging pictures of the Scholastic era commonly portray its figures as hard at work in calculating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The true account of Scholasticism is quite different, as Jacques Maritains study in miniature, The Sin of the Angel, deftly demonstrates. The question of the angels sin is eminently practical, not esoteric: it revolves around the primordial points of free will, eternal destiny, and