Brownson's Writings

• "Newman's Development of Christian Doctrine," BQR for July, 1846 (The Church has no natural history, for she is divine)
• "Influence of Catholic Prayer on Civilization," Brownson's Quarterly Review for July 1848
• "Protestantism Not a Religion" (Brownson's Quarterly Review for January, 1853)
• "The Eclipse of Faith," Brownson's Quarterly Review for October, 1853 (A review of Francis Newman, the younger brother of John Henry Newman)
• "Liberalism and Socialism," Brownson's Quarterly Review for 1855
• "Christianity and the Church Identical," Brownson's Quarterly Review for 1857
• Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus," Outside the Church, No Salvation, Brownson's Quarterly Review for April, 1874
• "Conditional Baptism: Remarks on the Letter 'Sacerdos' to the Editor"
• "Election and Reprobation: The Presbyterian Confession of Faith," BQR 1847 (The Errors of Calvinism)
• Protestantism Developed "Analytical Investigations concerning the Credibility of the Scriptures"
• "You Go too Far," (The Power of the Pope during the Middle Ages), Brownson's Quarterly Review for Jan. 1854
• Brownson Answer's J.V.H. (a Catholic) on His Incorrect Notion of Right," (1853, Brownson's Quarterly Review)
• "The Errors and Superstitions of the Church of Rome: A Dudleian Lecture delivered at Harvard," 1853
• Garneau's History of Canada, Brownson's Quarterly Review for Oct., 1853
• "The Love of Mary," Brownson's Quarterly Review for April, 1853
• "Catholicity in the Nineteenth Century," 1857, Brownson's Quarterly Review
• "Abbe Maret on the Necessity of Divine Revelation; Philosophy and Religion" pt. III (July 1858)
• "The Primacy of Peter," Brownson's Quarterly Review for Oct., 1857
• "Ontologism and Psychologism," July, 1874 (Brownson goes on the offensive against the philosophically unsound Jesuits)
• "Brownson on the Church and the Republic," Jan., 1857 (Brownson answers a Universalist minister)
• Limits of Religious Thought, April, 1860 (Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1858 by M. Mansel)
• "Reason and Faith," July, 1856 (A critique of the work by Abbe Collard)
• "The Soul's Activity," Jan., 1860 (The soul's first act is to think and will. But to think what?)
• "Walworth's Gentle Skeptic" (Essays and Conversations on the Authenticity and Truthfulness of the Old Testament Records) July 1863
• "St. Augustine and Calvinism" BQR for July 1863 (What the Catholic Church teaches about the damned)
• "Meditations of St. Ignatius," Brownson's Quarterly Review for July 1862
• "Weninger's Protestantism and Infidelity" Brownson's Quarterly Review for April 1862
• "Maret on Reason and Revelation," Brownson's Quarterly Review January, 1857
• "Lamennais and Gregory XVI," Brownson's Quarterly Review, 1859
• "Equality and Democracy" (A Speech Given at Notre Dame in 1897 by Henry F. Brownson, the son of Orestes Brownson)
• "Protestantism Ends in Transcendentalism," Brownson's Quarterly Review for July, 1846
• "Harmony of Faith and Reason," BQR for January, 1861 (Critique of Judge Baine's book, An Essay on the Harmonious Relations Between Divine Faith and Natural Reason)
• "Nature and Grace," (From the Catholic World for January, 1868)
• "Transcendental Road to Rome," Brownson's Quarterly Review for 1856
• "The Humanists: A Chapter from History" (Brownson's Quarterly Review for January, 1859)
• "The Immaculate Conception" (Brownson's Quarterly Review, October, 1859)
• The "Six Days" of Genesis; Brownson's Quarterly Review for April 1863
• The Giobertian Philosophy, Article 2 (1864)
• The Giobertian Philosophy, Pt. 1; BQR April 1864 (A Review of Vincenzo Gioberti and his Fight against the Modernists)
• The Convert: Or Leaves from My Experience; Brownson's Autobiography (An autobiographic essay of Brownson's intellectual career; Chapters 1-20, 200pp.)
• "Authority in Matters of Faith, Pt. II" (Brownson critiques the erroneous doctine of Egoism; he offers some parting remarks on American Education)
• "Authority in Matters of Faith" (Brownson answers a lawyer who asks, How can a fallible man believe an external infallible authority?)
• "Evangelical Alliance"; January, 1864 (A look at Protestantism in America and its antichristian Makeup)
• The Mysteries of Faith (Brownson refutes Unitarianism, Calvinism, and Jansenism; July 1863)
• Faith and Theology (Brownson's Distinction between Faith "Divine" / and Theology "Human"); January 1863
• The Woman Question, Pt. II (October 1873); this piece is a serious look at the "Woman's Rights Movement," its history and philosophy
• Catholicity, Liberalism and Socialism (A look at the late Spanish Catholic, Donoso Cortes; Brownson's Works, Vol. 20, 1862)
• The Protestant Rule of Faith (Brownson dissects the Protestantism of a Princeton Professor) Catholic World, Jan., 1872
• "Our New Programme" Jan., 1864 (The Review becomes national and Brownson comments on America's destiny)
• Essay in Refutation of Atheism, Pt. III (Brownson's Quarterly Review, April, 1874)
• Essay in Refutation of Atheism, Pt. I (Brownson's Quarterly Review, Oct. 1873)
• Essay in Refutation of Atheism, Pt. II (Brownson's Quarterly Review, Jan. 1874)
• "Liberalism and Progress" Oct., 1864 (Dr. Brownson refutes the liberalism of General Croaker / the beginnings of liberalism)
• Reading and Study of Holy Scripture (October, 1861; Latin Vulgate/King James Version, etc.)
• Various Objections Answered (October, 1861 *Brownson answers his Catholic objectors and answers questions about hell)
• Confiscation and Emancipation, July 1862 (An essay discussing the war and peace powers of the constitution in light of the Civil War)
• An Oration on the Scholar's Mission (college address)
• Porter's Human Intellect, Pt. I
• Vincenzo Gioberti, Art. I (BQR 1850)
• Rationalism and Traditionalism
• Gratry on the Knowledge of God, Pt. I
• Maret on the Necessity of Divine Revelation, Pt I
• Christianity and Positivism (Catholic World, 1871)
• Philosophy of Religion by Vincenzo Gioberti
• Maret on the Necessity of Divine Revelation, Pt II
• The Problem of Causality
• Professor Bascom's Lectures
• Primitive Elements of Thought
• Porter's Human Intellect, Pt. II
• Schools of Philosophy
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's Prose
• Argyll's Rule of Law
• An Old Quarrel
• Gratry's Logic
• Union of Church and State (Catholic World, 1867)
• Pretensions of Phrenology
• Owen's Spiritualism (Catholic World, 1872)
• Primeval Man (Catholic World, 1869)
• Guettee's Papacy Schismatic, part II (Catholic World, 1867)
• Guettee's Papacy Schismatic, part I (Catholic World, 1867)
• Catholicity and Naturalism
• Bishop Fenwick
• The Day-Star of Freedom, BQR for April 1856
• "The Papal Power", from BQR for July, 1860
• "The Reunion of all Christians", BQR for April, 1854
• The Mercersburg Hypothesis
• Ward's Philosophical Introduction
• "The Church and Modern Civilization", BQR for October, 1856
• "The Church an Organism" for BQR, 1858
• Executive Patronage (American President), BQR for 1841
• The English Schism, BQR for October, 1858
• Present Catholic Dangers, BQR for July, 1857
• "The Secular Not Supreme" for the Catholic World, 1871
• Education and the Republic, for BQR January, 1874
• Cardinal Manning's Lectures, BQR for January, 1873
• The School Question
• Constitutional Government (Boston Quarterly Review, 1842)
• Independence of the Church, for Catholic World 1866
• Popular Government, Democratic Review for May 1843
• The Church and Monarchy
• Our Future Policy, BQR for January 1841
• Count Montalembert on England
• Russia and the Western Powers, BQR for January 1855
• Webster's Answer to Hulsemann, BQR for April 1851
• Emancipation and Colonization, BQR for April 1862
• What the Rebellion Teaches, BQR for July 1862
• State Rebellion, State Suicide, BQR for April, 1862
• The Slavery Question Once More, BQR April, 1857
• The Outlook at Home and Abroad
• The Recent Events in France (1800's)
• Slavery and the Incoming Administration, BQR 1857 (Civil War)
• The Political Outlook, BQR 1874
• Sardinia and Rome
• The True Cross (St. Helena)
• Sumner on Fugitive Slaves (Slavery / Civil War)
• The Struggle of the Nation for Life (Just War Theory)
• The Punishment of the Reprobate (Hell)
• Catholicity and Literature
• The Case of Martin Kostza
• The Know-Nothings, part II (freemasonry)
• The Know-Nothings, part I (freemasonry)
• Channing on Social Reform, part II
• Channing on Social Reform
• Aspirations of Nature (a view of nature and the supernatural)
• Cardinal Newman's Reply to Gladstone
• Manahan's Triumph of the Church
• Professor Tyndall's Address
• Hill's Elements of Philosophy
• The Church in the United States
• Mary Queen of Scots (The persecution of Queen Elizabeth)
• Papal Infallibility and Mr. Gladstone
• The Blakes and the Flanagans, BQR for April 1856
• Reforms and Reformers
• The Constitution of the Church
• Home Politics, BQR 1875 (Slavery, Government)
• Archbishop Hughes
• Bismarck and the Church, BQR 1873
• Distribution and the Public Lands
• Abolition Proceedings (slavery / Civil War)
• Schmucker's Psychology
• Banks and Banking: Remarks on Banks and Banking and the Skeleton Project for a National Bank - By a Citizen of Boston, 1840
• Philosophy and Common Sense
• Explanations to Catholics
• A Discourse on Lying
• Foreign Standard Literature
• Lieber's Political Ethics
• Our Indian Policy
• Prospects of the Democracy
• Wordsworth's Poems
• The Next President
• The President's Message and Proclamation
• Abolition and Negro Equality
• Introduction to the National Series
• Parker's Discourse
• The Distribution Bill
• Modern French Literature
• Conversations of an Old Man No. IV
• Conversations of an Old Man No. III
• Conversations of an Old Man No. II
• Conversations of an Old Man No. I
• The Two Brothers; or, Why are you a Protestant? No. 4 (Conclusion)
• The Two Brothers; or, Why are you a Protestant? No. 3
• The Two Brothers; or, Why are you a Protestant? No. 2
• The Two Brothers; or, Why are you a Protestant? No. 1
• Admonitions to Protestants No. 3
• Admonitions to Protestants No. 2
• Catholicity and Political Liberty
• Monastery of La Cava
• Mount St. Mary's College
• Elements of Latin Pronunciation
• Doctrinal Developments
• The Church in the Dark Ages
• The Dublin Review and Ourselves
• Morris on the Incarnation
• H.M. Field's Letter from Rome
• Morell's Philosophy of Religion
• Padre Ventura's Funeral Oration
• Dana's Muck Manual
• Recent European Events
• The Presbyterian Confession of Faith
• Protestantism in a Nutshell
• Politics and Political Parties
• The College of the Holy Cross
• The Christian Register's Objections
• Reply to the Mercersburg Review
• The Sea-Lions
• The Social Effects of Protestantism
• Spanish America
• Sparks on Episcopacy
• St. Stanislaus Kotska
• The Churchy as it was, is, and ought to be
• The Confessional--II
• Thornberry Abbey : a Tale of the Times
• Thornwell on Inspiration and Infallibility
• New Versions and the Vulgate
• Waterworth's Council of Trent
• Schiller's Aesthetic Theory
• The Roman Church and Modern Society
• The Protective Policy
• The Presidential Nominations
• Origin and Constitution of Government
• No Church, no Reform
• Newman's Theory of Christian Doctrine
• Natural and Supernatural
• Mr. Calhoun and the Baltimore Convention.
• Methodist Quarterly Review
• Kant's Critic of Pure Reason-Part III
• Influence of the Jesuits on Religion and Civilization
• Hildreth's Theory of Morals
• Fourierism repugnant to Christianity
• Faith not possible without the Church
• Christian Ethics
• Come-outerism
• Church Unity and Social Amelioration
• Catholic Magazine and Ourselves
• Bishop Hopkins on Novelties
• The Anglican Church Schismatic
• Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster
• The Christian Examiner's Defence
• The Vision of Sir Launfal
• Shandy M'Guire; or Irish Liberty
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Saints of Servants of God
• The Republic of the United States
• Religion in Society
• The Presidential Veto
• Pius the Ninth
• Novel-writing and Novel-reading
• Nature and Faith
• College Conversations
• Mohammed
• The Mercersburg Theology
• Briancourt on Labor and Association
• Girard College
• The French Republic
• Dr. Jarvis's Reply to Dr. Milner
• The Cuban Expedition
• Demagoguism
• The Decline of Protestantism
• Dana's Poems and Prose Writings
• The Canon of the Scripture
• The Life and Speeches of John C. Calhoun
• Bushnell on the Trinity
• The Church Question
• Cooper's Ways of the Hour
• Bushnell on the Mystery of Redemption
• Admonitions to Protestants
• Authority and Liberty
• American Literature
• An a priori Autobiography
• Fletcher Webster on War and Loyalty
• Longfellow's Evangeline and Kavanagh
• Guevara on the Veneration of Images
• The Dublin Review on Developments
• Presbyterianism and the Holy Scriptures
• Recent Publications
• Untitled Resource
• Protestant Dissensions
• Transcendentalism--Concluded
• The Jesuits
• The Confessional
• Socialism and the Church
• De Maistre on Political Constitutions
• Channing on Christendom and Socialism
• Channing on the Church and Social Reform
• Madness of Antichristians
• Ireland, O'Connell, &c
• R. Hildreth's Joint Letter
• Bushnell on the Incarnation
• Juoffroy's Ethical System
• Modern Idolatry
• The British Reformation
• A Salve for the Bite of the Black Viper I
• Protestant Love of Liberty
• Native Americanism
• Native American Civility,--Religious Liberty, &c.
• Parkerism, or Infidelity
• Webster's Answer to Hulsemann
• Transcendentalism, or latest Form of Infidelity-Article II
• Transcendentalism, or latest Form of Infidelity-Part II
• Transcendentalism, or latest Form of Infidelity
• Savonarola
• The Church against No-Church--Part II
• The Church against No-Church
• Hawkstone, or Oxfordism
• St. Dominic and the Albigenses
• Catholic Secular Literature
• Grantley Manor, or Popular Literature
• The Pentateuch
• Bushnellism : or Orthodoxy and Heresy identical
• Christianity and Heathenism
• Naomi: or Boston Two Hundred Years ago
• The Hungarian Nation
• Conservatism and Radicalism
• The Edinburgh Review on Ultramontane Doubts
• Gury's Moral Theology
• The Two Worlds, Catholic and Gentile
• Berkeley and Idealism
• Paganism and Education
• Continental Prospects
• The Great Question--Part II
• The Great Question
• Newman on the True Basis of Theology
• Willotoft, or Protestant Persecution
• Protestantism and Government
• Kossuth in New England
• Piractical Expeditions against Cuba
• Slavery and the War--Part II
• Slavery and the War
• The Annual Message of the President
• Dangers of Jesuit Instruction
• Sick Calls
• Introductory Remarks, Boston Quarterly Review, Jan. 1838
• The End of the Eighteenth Volume
• The Works of Daniel Webster
• Saint-Bonnet on Social Restoration
• Austria and Hungary
• "The Reformation" in Ireland
• The Existence of God
• Professor Park Against Catholicity--Part II
• Professor Parker Against Catholicity
• Vincenzo Gioberti
• Slavery and the Mexican War
• The Church a Historical Fact
• Bishop England's Works
• John O'Brien
• The Fugitive Slave Law
• The Late Bishop of Boston
• The Mortara Case
• The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1851
• Rights and Duties
• Kant's Critic of Pure Reason--Part II
• Kant's Critic of Pure Reason--Part 1
• The Conclusion of the Boston Quarterly Review
• The Banquet of Theodulus
• The Presbyterian Confession of Faith
• Thornwell Against Infallibility
• The Hungarian Rebellion
• Civil and Religious Toleration
• Religious Novels
• Reason and Revelation
• A Salve for the Bite of the Black Viper II
• In Memoriam, Orestes A. Brownson
• Legitimacy and Revolutionism,--Conservatism and Reform
• Resolutions adopted by the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, June 1, 1852
• Bancroft's History of the United States
• The Laboring Classes
• Defense of the article "The Laboring Classes"
• The Works of Orestes A. Brownson Volume 2
• From Protestantism to the Catholic Church
• The Vision and Vocation of Orestes Brownson
• Faith and Reason, Revelation and Science
• Introduction to Brownson's Quarterly Review, January, 1844
• Free Religion
• Rome and the World
• Rome or Reason
• Philosophy of the Supernatural
• Untitled Resource
• A Discourse on the True Idea of the State as a Religious Institution
• A History of the Irish Settlers in North American, from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850
• Obituary: New York Times 1876
• Archbishop Hughes on the Catholic Press
• Approbation of Brownson by all the American Bishops Attending the Council of Baltimore
• Necessity of Liberal Education
• Burnett's Path to the Church
• The Yankee in Ireland
• Ailey Moore
• Froschammer on the Freedom of Science
• Beecher's Norwood
• Religious Novels, and Woman Versus Man
• The Scholar's Mission
• Capes's Four Years' Experience
• Use and Abuse of Reading
• Introduction to the Last Series
• Lacordaire and Catholic Progress
• National Greatness
• 7. Philosophy
• Listing of Every Article Appearing in Brownson's Quarterly Review
• 6. Civil and Religious Liberty
• 5. Political Economy
• 4. The United States
• 3. The Sciences
• 2. Education
• Brownson's Views by Benziger Brothers
• Reform and Conservatism
• The Episcopal Observer Verses the Church
• Catholicity Necessary to Sustain Popular Liberty
• Free Labor
• The Higher Law
• Catholic Schools and Education
• Napoleonic Ideas
• The Conflict of Science and Faith
• The Family, Christian and Pagan
• Liberalism and Catholicity
• Protestant Journalism
• Faith and the Sciences
• Science and the Sciences
• Catholics of England and Ireland
• Political Constitutions
• Spiritual Despotism
• Literary Policy of the Church of Rome
• Philosophy and Catholicity
• Philosophy of the Supernatural
• Papal Conspiracy Exposed
• The Nature and Office of the Church
• St. Peter and Mahomet; or the Popes Protecting Christendom from Mahometanism
• What is the Need of Revelation?
• Reason and Religion
• The Recent Election
• Luther and the Reformation
• The Church Above the State
• In Dark Days
• The Woman Question, Part 1
• Slavery and the Church
• Religion and Science
• Native Americans
• Women's Novels
• Whose is the Child?
• Valedictory
• A Tribute to the Death of Brownson
• The Syllabus of Pius IX
• The Suffrage Party in Rhode Island
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poems
• Government
• Pope and Emperor
• The Political State of the Country
• Pere Felix on Progress
• Miss Fuller and Reformers
• Manning's Lectures
• The Licentiousness of the Press
• An Imaginary Contradiction
• Etudes De Theologie
• Constitutional Law
• Carlyle's French Revolution
• Thornwell's Answer to Dr. Lynch
• Bits of Blarney
• Answer to Objections
• Love, Literature and Marriage
• The Catholic Press
• Moral and Social Influence of Devotion to Mary
• Saint Worship - Part 17
• Saint Worship - Part 16
• Saint Worship - Part 15
• Saint Worship - Part 14
• Saint Worship - Part 13
• Saint Worship - Part 12
• Saint Worship - Part 11
• Saint Worship - Part 10
• Saint Worship - Part 9
• Saint Worship - Part 8
• Saint Worship - Part 7
• Saint Worship - Part 6
• Saint Worship - Part 5
• Saint Worship - Part 4
• Saint Worship - Part 3
• Saint Worship - Part 2
• Saint Worship - Part 1
• Saint Worship
• The Public School System
• Mary Worship
• Darwin's Descent of Man
• The Child Part 3
• The Child Part 2
• The Child Part 1
• The Child
• Democratic Principle
• Origin of Civilization