Enchanting the World: the vision of twentieth-century Catholic writers
A God-haunted world -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust -- Enchantments faux and genuine -- We could all be saints -- Catholic enchantment : French accents -- All my life I have been haunted by God -- Christians as necessary misfits -- The disenchantment of everydayness -- Catholic enchantment : French...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
The Crossroad Publishing Company
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Literature
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| Further subjects: | B
Catholic literature
History and criticism
B Catholic Church In literature B Catholic authors |
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Table of Contents Literaturverzeichnis |
| Summary: | A God-haunted world -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust -- Enchantments faux and genuine -- We could all be saints -- Catholic enchantment : French accents -- All my life I have been haunted by God -- Christians as necessary misfits -- The disenchantment of everydayness -- Catholic enchantment : French accents, part two -- Anticipation : Jubilee Magazine -- The return of enchantment -- Now I must open the jar of ointment -- Rituals of the ordinary -- A world lit from within. "The story told here concerns the efforts of Catholic authors in the 20th century to describe a world that is both disenchanted and yet teeming with haunting clues about the presence of God and the miracle of grace. These writers turned to metaphors of nature--the charm of a garden and the setting of the sun--to signal both enchantment and a world darkened by its loss. And they turn to the second language of religious images--Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, a chapel's sanctuary lamp--to cast a spell that might penetrate the cloud of disenchantment that envelopes our world"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0824599063 |