Acts of faith and imagination: theological patterns in Catholic fiction
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Patterns of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination -- Some Additional Clarifications -- A Glance Ahead -- Chapter One. A Pattern Of Convergence: Faith, Fiction, and Fragment -- What Is Faith? -- Catholic Fictio...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D. C.
Catholic University of America Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Little, Brent, Acts of faith and imagination : theological patterns in Catholic fiction] (2025) (Kerns, Elizabeth)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KDB Roman Catholic Church NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Novel
B Short story B Catholicism |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Patterns of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination -- Some Additional Clarifications -- A Glance Ahead -- Chapter One. A Pattern Of Convergence: Faith, Fiction, and Fragment -- What Is Faith? -- Catholic Fictional Works as Theological Texts -- Encounters with Doubt: Greene's Monsignor Quixote -- Fragments of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination -- Chapter Two. A Pattern of Contrast: Grace and Faith in Modern and Contemporary Short Stories -- Secular Faith Overturned: O'Connor's "The Displaced Person" and "The Enduring Chill" -- Contemporary Fiction's Postmodern Context -- Uncertain Faith: Grace in the Contemporary Short Stories of L'Heureux, Klay, and Quade -- Chapter Three. Faith as Resistance To Evil -- Spark's Hidden Sacramental Imagination in The Girls of Slender Means -- Conversion from the Perspective of Evil in Percy's Lancelot -- Can Evil's Existence be Defended? -- Innocent Suffering in L'Heureux's The Shrine at Altamira: Hope or Despair? -- Chapter Four. Sacrifice And Grace -- Sacrifice as Vicarious Suffering: Greene's The Power and the Glory -- Martyrs, Both Reluctant and Willing: Solidarity in Sacrifice in Endo's The Samurai -- Sacrifice and the Suffering of Children: Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them -- Chapter Five. Woundedness And Community -- Community as a Source of Grace -- The Turn toward Mystical Community: O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away -- Community Reconfigured: Woundedness in Gordon's The Company of Women -- The Surprise of Grace-Filled Community: A Sacramental Reading of Morrison's Paradise -- Chapter Six. Sacramentality in Catholic Fiction: Some Thoughts on a Pattern of Contrast -- A Subtle Sacramental Correction: Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Grace Both Extraordinary and Ordinary: Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813236667 |
