By Anscar Vonier, O.S.B.

Our Lord is nothing if not a Personality. His grace is nothing if not a gift of love and mutual understanding. There is no profit from the Gospel unless it be the perfecting of the human mind and heart. (Anscar Vonier, O.S.B.)

The Christian religion can never be put on a par with other religious systems, for it is not just a system but a Person: Jesus of Nazareth. The vital question which faces Christianity is: Who and what is Jesus? The answer is one and the same: the hypostatic union. Jesus of Nazareth is true God and true man—the human and divine natures are mysteriously united in one Divine personality. In The Personality of Christ, Anscar Vonier presents this doctrine of the Incarnation, faithfully following the Christological lines of thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and employing the record of Sacred Scripture to great effect, to articulate the philosophical meaning of personality; the unity of revelation, theology, and personal experience; the two wills of Christ—human and divine; the capacity of God to suffer and weep, bleed and die; and the gift of the Blessed Sacrament, in which Christ remains wholly and substantially present to His Church, “until the end of the age.”

First published in 1914, The Personality of Christ is an emphatically fulfilling work of Christian teaching, revealing the wonder of the dogma of Christ’s coming in the fullness of time to humbly assume fallen human nature and gloriously achieve its redemption and sanctification.

Anscar Vonier, O.S.B. (1878–1938) was a German Benedictine monk and the abbot of Buckfast Abbey from 1906 until his death. As abbot, he oversaw the rebuilding of the abbey’s church on its original foundations, work done solely by the monks of Buckfast themselves. As an author, he wrote numerous works of theology and spirituality aimed at the instruction and edification of the ordinary Catholic; most famous among these are A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist, The Christian Mind, and The Victory of Christ.

Paperback: 234pp.

ISBN: 978-1685955007