Author:Isaac Thomas Hecker

Isaac Thomas Hecker
(1819–1888)

Isaac Thomas Hecker

Works

• Questions of the Soul (1854) external scan
• The Aspirations of Nature (1857) external scan
• The Young Converts: or, Memoirs of the Three Sisters, Debbie, Helen and Anna Barlow (1861), as editor external scan
• The Church and the Age (1887), comprising articles published in The Catholic World external scan
• Die Kirche betrachtet mit Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Streitfragen und die Bedürfnisse unserer Zeit (1875), “by an American,” external scan

• A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry D. Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker, 1902 external scan
• The Light of the Cross in the Twentieth Century (1905), as contributor, three volumes:
  • Volume 1 (external scan)
  • Volume 2 (external scan)
  • Volume 3 (external scan)

• The Catholic World magazine, founder, editor, and author of numerous articles
• The Young Catholic, a paper for children, director

Works about Hecker

• "Hecker, Isaac Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hecker, Isaac Thomas," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
• "Hecker, Isaac Thomas," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Isaac Thomas Hecker," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Testem Benevolentiae," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• The Life of Father Hecker, 1891, by Walter Elliott, with an introduction by Msgr. (later Abp.) Msgr. (later Abp.) John Ireland, which, combined with the translation below, led to the “Americanism” controversy. external scan
• Le Père Hecker : fondateur des “Paulistes” Américains, 1819-1888, 1897 French translation of Elliott’s biography, the Preface by the translator, Abbé Félix Klein, leading eventually to Leo XIII’s 1899 encyclical, Testem Benevolentiæ Nostræ, correcting so-called “Americanism.” Fr. Hecker himself never espoused Americanism. external scan
• Un Catholicisme Américain, (in French) 1898, by Alphonse J. Delattre, presumably about the controversy external scan