Helena’s Witness
Scholars have criticized Evelyn Waugh’s novel Helena as flawed and uneven—an unfortunate subjection of his artistic gifts to the perceived demands of his faith. It is often read as a fictional work of apologetics, straightforwardly defending the empirical truth of Christianity. In fact, however, Wau...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 263-273 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints TK Recent history |
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Theology
B FAITH (Christianity) B Religious Thought B relic B Helen of Troy B Evelyn Waugh B Faith B Skepticism B WAUGH, Evelyn, 1903-1966 B Apologetics B Doubt B Saint |
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