Modern Christian Literature, Volume 119Hawthorn Books, 1961 - 174 pagina's The author unfolds for us the well-spring of the Christian spirit that runs through the religiously oriented literature of the last 450 years. This guided literary tour begins with the genius of the sixteenth century--Thomas More, Martin Luther, St. Ignatius, St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross; wends through the magnificence of the seventeetnth century when giants like Milton and Bunyan were writing in England, when Racine and Pascal lived in France and Calderon in Spain. The light of greatness dims for Christian writing in the eighteenth century as if to pause for breath before the grandeur of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Christian masters--Chateaubriand, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Newman, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Soloviev and finally Péguy and Bloy. In short pointed analyses the author picks out the Christian content of each writer in his particular environment. |
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Angelus Silesius Annette von Droste-Hülshoff attitude baroque beauty Bloy Bossuet Calderon's Catholic Catholicism Cenodoxus century Christ Christendom Christian literature Church Crashaw creation Creator Cross dark death despair divine doctrine Donne Dostoevsky drama E. R. Curtius earth earthly Eichendorff emotion Ernst Jünger eternal everything expression faith feel Fénelon Francis de Sales freedom Gerhardt German God's Görres grace Gryphius heart heaven Holy Hopkins human hymns Ignatius Ignatius of Loyola influence Jesuit Jesus Kierkegaard king light literary lives Lord Luther lyric means misery mystery mystical nature never Newman Novalis novel paradise Pascal passions Péguy philosophers piety plays poems poet poetry portray praise Protestant Protestantism reality Reinhold Schneider religion religious Russian saint salvation says sermons Soloviev sonnets sorrow soul Spee spiritual struggle suffering symbol T. S. Eliot Teresa Teresa of Avila thee things thou thought translation true truth Utopia whole words writer wrote