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Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: David Torevell

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This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.

This volume investigates how literary texts have reflected, in ground-breaking ways, distinctive features of a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by its…
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This volume investigates how literary texts have reflected, in ground-breaking ways, distinctive features of a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by its ability to capture the imagination, is able to evoke facets of human experience related specifically to a Catholic understanding of life.

Dr David Torevell taught in Catholic secondary schools before entering Higher Education in 1992. He was previously Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds Trinity University, UK, and is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform (2000) and Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown: Another Place (2007). He has also edited many books and published numerous articles in international journals on a range of theological, philosophical, and educational issues. His research interests include Catholic theology, theology and literature, theology and the arts, sport and religion, and Catholic education.

Emilio José Álvarez Castaño, Carolyn Medine, Terry Phillips, Adam Schwartz, Daniel Frampton, Michael Murphy, Michael Murphy, Michael Kirwan, David Deavel, Mark Bosco, David Torevell

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-6662-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6662-0
  • Date of Publication: 2021-03-15

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-7454-7
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7454-0
  • Date of Publication: 2021-09-20

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-6705-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6705-4
  • Date of Publication: 2021-09-20
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  • BIC: DS, DSBH, FW
  • THEMA: DS, DSBJ, DSBH
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  • “Challenging the view that Catholic literature is a thing of the past, 'Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries' compellingly maintains that Catholic literature is timely and significant, offering illuminating truths to contemporary audiences of all religious persuasions.”
    - David Torevell Honorary Research Fellow, Leeds Trinity University
  • “As St. John Henry Newman said, faith is a God-given way of seeing reality, which is always more than (while inclusive of) cold truths or concepts. As this fine gathering of authors shows, those who write with imagination broaden and deepen our angle on existence, on the worthwhileness of our passing this way.”
    - Rev. Dr Paul Rowan, PhL, STD Director, Beaulieu Institute of Theological Literacy, UK
  • “From time to time, a book crosses one’s desk that is so compelling that it becomes a text that lives with you. You will meet some of your favourite authors and discover their complex relationship with Catholicism. In a way that is accessible yet profound, the book pulsates with insight and wisdom.”
    - The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, PhD Dean, President, and Professor of Theology and Ethics, Virginia Theological Seminary, USA
  • “A wonderfully rangy, ambitious, and provoking collection of essays on what it means to write with a distinctively Catholic vision. At once a history of the Catholic literary revival of the late 19th and 20th centuries, and a series of single-author studies, this important book invites us to think afresh not only about the literary treatment of explicitly Catholic themes, but also about what it means to have and express an implicitly Catholic sensibility.”
    - Dr Michael D. Hurley Reader in Literature and Theology, University of Cambridge

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