@article{Schachenmayr2021, author = {Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr}, title = {The Work of Fr. Raymond Flanagan, OCSO, Author of Historical Novels, Devotional Books, and Pamphlets}, series = {Cistercian Studies Quarterly}, volume = {56}, number = {1}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0295-opus4-21730}, pages = {77 -- 95}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Father Mary Raymond Flanagan (1903–1990), a monk of Gethsemani Abbey, was the widely- read author of dozens of books and pamphlets particularly popular in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. Numbering in the dozens, his publications were characterized by a hard-hitting, vigorous Catholic piety that accentuated American family values, fidelity to Catholic traditions, the beauty of religious vocations, anti-Communism, and the athletic asceticism he associated with the first Cistercians. His works lost their appeal to a wide audience during the cultural shift of the late 1960s and later, but several of his writings have been reissued in recent years. This essay includes a short biography and a bibliography of Flanagan's books and pamphlets.}, language = {en} }