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

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.

• 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 Słyszewska: «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 Fruntelată: Empirical Religion vs. Secularisation in Postcommunist Romania.