The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity

Twelve papers presented at the international Conference ACED Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts, held at the University of Bucharest, Romania, in June 2015, construct a case for the expression in literature of direct and indirect ways of remaining faithful to Christianity. Modern theologians and writers are placed face to face.

Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and society). Poetry (by Eliot, Yeats, Heaney, David Jones, Hill, G.M. Brown) and fiction (Henry James, Lodge, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Rose Macaulay and Ron Hansen), interpreted with (Thomist and more recent) theology (J.H. Newman's, Paul Tillich's, Hans Urs von Balthasar's, De Certeau's) and philosophy (from Plato to Gadamer) in mind, give heartening suggestions for transcending, along Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox lines, the modern secular ethos.

Autorentext

Ioana Zirra teaches Victorian and twentieth-century modernity and postmodernity in the English and Irish literary canon at the University of Bucharest. Madeline Potter is carrying out research at the British Cultural Studies Centre, University of Bucharest.

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Contents: Ioana Zirra: Introduction: The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity - Adrian Grafe: A Plea in Favour of Guilt - Ioana Zirra: Poetic Kairoi in «Lapis Lazuli» and «A Dialogue of Self and Soul» by Yeats and in Seamus Heaney's «A Snowshoe» (Shelf Life VI) - Anna Walczuk: Turning Away from Modern Secularisation: T. S. Eliot and His Poetic Space for a Metaphysical Quest - Roxana Paula Trandafir: C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot: Christianity through the Looking Glass - Joseph Kuhn: A Blood that Is Wise: Flannery O'Connor and the «Nouvelle Théologie» - Martin Potter: Does Art Imply Theology?: Henry James, Hans-Georg Gadamer, David Jones and Hans Urs von Balthasar - Madeline Potter: Moving beyond Ekphrasis: Sacramental Transference of Being in the Arts - Maria Fengler: Aspects of Catholic Spirituality in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown - Aleksandra Slyszewska: «New wine in new bottles»: Some Aspects of the Twentieth-Century English Catholic Novel - James Christian Brown: «The Church... I suppose it really is out to stop war»: Christianity and Peace Activism in Rose Macaulay's Non-Combatants and Others (1916) - Michael S. Jones: Religion as Philosophy and Art in the Work of Lucian Blaga - Ioana-Ruxandra Fruntelata: Empirical Religion vs. Secularisation in Postcommunist Romania.