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Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 21, 2010) ISBN-10: 069114575X ISBN-13: 978-0691145754 reviewed by Roy Peachey It is often assumed, in England at least, that the age of great Christian literature is over. What we have instead, the argument goes, are books which either ignore religion completely, mock it mercilessly, or treat it [...]
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 [...]
by Steve Weatherbe [This article was first published in the Canadian Anglican Journal. —Editor] MURDER mysteries start at the end of the story—with a murder. And so, says Wilfrid Laurier University professor Peter Erb, does Christianity. He believes it is no accident that so many Christians enjoy mystery novels or that Christian writers and Christian [...]
Marilynne Robinson, Christian novelist and author of the beautiful (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) novel Gilead has come out with a new book, non-fiction this time, entitled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. In it, according to this article in Publishers Weekly, Robinson writes on the relationship between science [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Percolator blog has an entertaining post by Tom Bartlett on Catholic novelist Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. According to Bartlett, Either Lost in the Cosmos is profound or it’s the book equivalent of somebody encouraging you to, like, really think about how each tree use [...]
I just found, online, a copy of an article on theology, philosophy and the Catholic novel by Prof. Glenn Statile, a member of the Philosophy faculty of St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and a frequent contributor to the excellent Metanexus Insitute publication, The Global Spiral. The article, “Communication, Consecration and the Catholic Novel”, was [...]
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