The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity
©2016
Edited Collection
169 Pages
Series:
Dis/Continuities, Volume 13
Summary
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and society). Poetry (by Eliot, Yeats, Heaney, David Jones, Hill, G.M. Brown) and fiction (Henry James, Lodge, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O’Connor, Rose Macaulay and Ron Hansen), interpreted with (Thomist and more recent) theology (J.H. Newman’s, Paul Tillich’s, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s, De Certeau’s) and philosophy (from Plato to Gadamer) in mind, give heartening suggestions for transcending, along Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox lines, the modern secular ethos.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity
- Back to Faith and Theology through the Paradoxical Modern Gate
- A Plea in Favour of Guilt
- Poetic Kairoi in “Lapis Lazuli” and “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” by Yeats and in Seamus Heaney’s “A Snowshoe” (Shelf Life VI)
- Moving Against the Grain of Modern Secularisation. Modernism Before and After
- Turning Away from Modern Secularisation: T. S. Eliot and His Poetic Space for a Metaphysical Quest
- C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot: Christianity through the Looking Glass
- At the Heart of the Matter – Theology and Sacramentality in Recent Modernity
- A Blood that Is Wise: Flannery O’Connor and the “Nouvelle Théologie”
- Does Art Imply Theology?: Henry James, Hans-Georg Gadamer, David Jones and Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Moving beyond Ekphrasis: Sacramental Transference of Being in the Arts
- The Long Catholic Modernity in the Twentieth Century
- Aspects of Catholic Spirituality in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown
- “New wine in new bottles”: Some Aspects of the Twentieth-Century English Catholic Novel
- Patterns for the Persistence of Christian Faith in the World of Today
- “The Church… I suppose it really is out to stop war”: Christianity and Peace Activism in Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others (1916)
- Religion as Philosophy and Art in the Work of Lucian Blaga
- Empirical Religion vs. Secularisation in Postcommunist Romania
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Index
Ioana Zirra / Madeline Potter (eds.)
The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity
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Details
- Pages
- 169
- Publication Year
- 2016
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631668887
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653063097
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783653955668
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783653955675
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-06309-7
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2015 (December)
- Keywords
- Religion Spirituality Secularisation Fiction Poetry
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 169 pp.
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