The Wounded Angel

Fiction and the Religious Imagination

Paul Lakeland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2017
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-4622-9 (ISBN)

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In this unique book, readers are taken on a journey to explore the role of the imagination in the face of mystery, whether it be the mystery of God, whose full reality lies beyond our earthly horizons, or the deepest mysteries of life hinted at in the work of fiction. By attending to a series of novels, Paul Lakeland proposes serious fiction as an antidote to the failure of the religious imagination today and shows how literature might lead the secular mind at least to the threshold of mystery.

Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley, SJ, Professor of Catholic Studies and founding director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution in Connecticut. Educated at Heythrop Pontifical Athenaeum, Oxford University, the University of London, and Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Fairfield since 1981. He is the author of nine previous books, the most recent of which is A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today (Liturgical Press, 2013). Lakeland is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Theological Society, the College Theology Society, and the Catholic Theological Society of America. He blogs occasionally and reviews fiction for Commonweal, a Catholic journal of opinion.

Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Act of Faith and the Act of Reading
Chapter One: What Is the Act of Faith?
Chapter Two: Faith in the Modern World
Chapter Three: Faith and Fiction

Part Two: Religion and Literature
Chapter Four: The Crisis of Faith and the Promise of Grace
Chapter Five: Secular Mysticism
Chapter Six: What’s Catholicism Got to Do with It?

Part Three: The Wounded Angel
Chapter Seven: The Sacred and the Secular
Chapter Eight: The Communion of Saints
Chapter Nine: Saving Stories

Index of Names

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	289 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8146-4622-0 / 0814646220
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-4622-9 / 9780814646229
Zustand	Neuware