Cathedrals of Bone
The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 229 kr
Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
The metaphor of the Church as a "body" has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well-known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of Bone is the first full-length study of a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J. F. Powers, to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr, Lucia Perillo, and Anne Carson, to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. Motivated by the inspirational yet thoroughly incarnational rhetoric of Vatican II, each of these writers encourages readers to think about the human body as a site-perhaps the most important site-of interaction between God and human beings. Although they represent the body in different ways, these late-twentieth-century Catholic artists share a sense of its inherent value. Moreover, they use ideas and terminology from the rich tradition of Catholic sacramentality, especially as it was articulated in the documents of Vatican II, to describe that value. In this way they challenge the Church to take its own tradition seriously and to reconsider its relationship to a relatively recent apologetics that has emphasized a narrow view of human reason and a rigid sense of orthodoxy.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2009-06-01
- Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
- Vikt476 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor224
- FörlagFordham University Press
- ISBN9780823230600
Tillhör följande kategorier
Hoppa över listan
Du kanske också är intresserad av
- Nyhet
Del 7
- Nyhet
Del 6
- Nyhet
Del 4
Del 3
- Nyhet
Del 11
- Nyhet
- Nyhet
- Nyhet
Del 1