E. I. Watkin

Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981) was an English writer. A convert to Catholicism in 1908, he founded in 1936 with Eric Gill and Donald Attwater the inter-war Catholic pacifist movement Pax [ Patrick G. Coy, "A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker", p.76.] . This movement was prominently supported by Dorothy Day [ [http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=222&SearchTerm=gill,%20Eric Catholic Worker Movement - DorothyDay ] ] .

Life

He was educated at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford [Joseph Pearce, "Literary Converts" (1999), p. 39.] . He publicly opposed conscription in 1916 [ [http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/uploads/approved/adt-NUWS20040701.164232/public/06Chapter4.pdf PDF] , p. 173] , a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet "The Crime of Conscription".

Family

His maternal grandfather was Herbert Ingram; Edward Watkin was a great-uncle on his father’s side [ [http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/earlyhistiln.htm The Early History of the Illustrated London News ] ] .

Works

*"Some Thoughts on Catholic Apologetics: A Plea for Interpretation" (1915)
*"A Little Book of Prayers for Peace" (1916)
*"The Philosophy of Mysticism" (1920)
*"The Bow in the Clouds: An Essay Towards the Integration of Experience" (1931)
*"A Philosophy of Form" (1935)
*"Theism, Agnosticism And Atheism" (1936)
*"Men and Tendencies" (1937)
*"The Crime of Conscription" (1939)
*"The Catholic Center" (1939)
*"Catholic Art and Culture" (1942)
*"Praise of Glory" (1943)
*"The Balance of Truth" (1943)
*"Poets and Mystics" (1953)
*"Neglected Saints" (1955)
*"Roman Catholicism in England from the Reformation to 1950" (1957)
*"The Church in Council" (1960)

References

*Magdalen Goffin, "The Watkin Path: An Approach to Belief", biography by his daughter.

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