Bernard Philip Kelly (April 25, 1907—November 2, 1958) was an English Catholic layman who worked in a bank, raised a large family, and regularly penned, over 25 years, philosophical essays and book reviews for the Dominican journal ''Blackfriars''. His friendship with foremost British

Thomists Thomism is the philosophical and theological school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questions ...

and leading distributists of his day, and with the Indian scholar

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—along with his love for the poetry of

Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovato ...

—permitted his short life to become the matrix of a rich body of writings. Bernard PhilipKelly

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Kelly's inspiration was drawn in part from

scholastic philosophy Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translate ...

and, in particular, the metaphysics of

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

. Among the themes developed in his writings were the social and economic theory of Distributism, reflections on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the outlines of a critique of the modern world, and the development of an informed and Christian approach to

Eastern religions The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions. This includes the East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese fol ...

. His seminal articles on Eastern philosophy and religion were among his last publications:See in particular: "Notes on the Light of the Eastern Religions" (Dominican Studies, London, 1954, pp. 254-271; reprinted in ''Religion of the Heart'', Foundation for Traditional Studies, Oakton VA, 1991); "A Thomist Approach to the

Vedanta ''Vedanta'' (; sa, वेदान्त, ), also ''Uttara Mīmāṃsā'', is one of the six (''āstika'') schools of Hindu philosophy. Literally meaning "end of the Vedas", Vedanta reflects ideas that emerged from, or were aligned with, t ...

, (Blackfriars XXXVII, no. 430, January 1956); and "The metaphysical background to analogy" (Aquinas Paper No. 28, Blackfriars Publications, London 1958).

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*Bernard Kelly, ''A Catholic Mind Awake'', ed. with Introduction by Scott Randall Paine, Angelico Press, 2017. *William Stoddart, ''A Scholastic Universalist: The Writings and Thought of Bernard Kelly (1907–1958)'', ''New Blackfriars'', Volume 76 Issue 897, pp. 455–46
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