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The Enigma of Baron Friedrich von Hügel—As Modernist—II

IN the January number of this journal I discussed the problematic nature of any attempt to place Friedrich von Hiigel neatly among 'the modernists' and I set out the conflicting historiographical traditions concerning 'the modernist von Hiigel' that have arisen since the Baron's death almost fifty years ago. The thorny problem of the nature and extent of the Baron's modernist sympathies will be solved, I suggested, only by grasping his life as a whole, by seeing the continuity it manifests and in terms of which his 'modernist period' can be seen for what it was, not merely a relatively brief episode in the man's life but one which, if isolated from the whole, can only blind us to the Baron's central achievement. The decisivequestion concerns the Baron's 'pre-modernist' period, the first forty or more years of his life. What had gone toward the making of the mature Friedrich von Hiigel? What were the roots from which he grew, the traditions in which he stood and of which he understood himself as heir and continuator? The central question is that of his intellectual and religious antecedents. It is the question of tradition.