In the light of Christ : writings in the Western tradition / Lucy Beckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckett, Lucy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

648 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2006]

Summary:

The good, the true and the beautiful-our souls long for these. Though they reside in unity and perfection in God alone, the written word is one place we can discover glimmers of divine light. The writings of great souls can turn our gaze toward God as he is revealed in Jesus Christ. Even authors who do not know Christ or who reject Christ can still point to him, for anyone who seeks the truth finds it; and any one who turns his back on the truth turns away from Someone whose presence can often be more keenly felt in his absence.

In this volume, Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition and trains our eye to discover in them the Christian vision of God. She masterfully guides us through Sophocles, Plato, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and many others. With selections taken from poems, plays, essays, letters and diaries, she deftly demonstrates each author's worth as a bearer of truth.

Contents:

Introduction: the order of love

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Plato

Rome: Cicero and Virgil

Augustine I: Confessions

Augustine II: City of God

The Benedictine centuries I: Benedict, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Gregory and Bede

The Benedictine centuries II: Anselm, Bernard and Aelred

Dante

Shakespeare I: Henry VI to Measure for Measure

Shakespeare II: Othello to Henry VIII

The seventeenth century I: Donne, Herbert and Milton

The seventeenth century II: Pascal

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Henry Newman and Matthew Arnold

G.M. Hopkins and Emily Dickinson

George Santayana, Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot

Russia I: Pushkin to The Devils

Russia II: The brothers Karamazov to Solzhenitsyn

D.H. Lawrence, F.R. Lewis, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil and Saul Bellow

Czesław Miłosz and Pope John Paul II.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1586171070

9781586171070

OCLC:

76790156