UK readers take note: the 13th annual Graham Greene International Festival will be held from 30th September to 3rd October 201o at several venues in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK.
According to Festival director, Dermot Gilvary, the Festival will feature a talk by Dr. Frances McCormack (National University of Ireland, Galway) on aspects of medieval theology in the works of Graham Greene. Her title is “Nothing but a regret: compunction and shame in the Catholic novels of Graham Greene”.
According to Gilvary, Dr. McCormack
…will explain the medieval theological doctrine of compunction, which was a monastic doctrine of a sorrow and regret which would bring one closer to God. According to the theological writers of the time, it had four sources: (i) awareness of one’s own sins, (ii) contemplation of heaven, (iii) fear of damnation, and (iv) sorrow for the sins of others. She will argue that this doctrine informs Greene’s Catholic writings, motivating his characters to the sense of regret and shame which they so often feel. She will examine this compunction as a motivational force in the lives of both protagonists and antagonists in the Catholic novels.
Read Dermot Gilvary’s entire blog post about the talk by Dr. McCormack here.
For more information on the Greene Festival, click here.
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