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Acts of Faith and Imagination : Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction / Brent Little ; foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Little, Brent (College teacher), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic fiction--History and criticism.
- Catholic fiction.
- Theology in literature.
- Catholic Church--In literature.
- Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Catholic University of America Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, the author argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Catholic fiction portrays faith-at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level-as an act of the imagination. Authors discussed include Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, and Uwem Akpan"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Patterns of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination
- Some Additional Clarifications
- A Glance Ahead
- Chapter One. A Pattern Of Convergence: Faith, Fiction, and Fragment
- What Is Faith?
- Catholic Fictional Works as Theological Texts
- Encounters with Doubt: Greene's Monsignor Quixote
- Fragments of Faith in the Catholic Literary Imagination
- Chapter Two. A Pattern of Contrast: Grace and Faith in Modern and Contemporary Short Stories
- Secular Faith Overturned: O'Connor's "The Displaced Person" and "The Enduring Chill"
- Contemporary Fiction's Postmodern Context
- Uncertain Faith: Grace in the Contemporary Short Stories of L'Heureux, Klay, and Quade
- Chapter Three. Faith as Resistance To Evil
- Spark's Hidden Sacramental Imagination in The Girls of Slender Means
- Conversion from the Perspective of Evil in Percy's Lancelot
- Can Evil's Existence be Defended?
- Innocent Suffering in L'Heureux's The Shrine at Altamira: Hope or Despair?
- Chapter Four. Sacrifice And Grace
- Sacrifice as Vicarious Suffering: Greene's The Power and the Glory
- Martyrs, Both Reluctant and Willing: Solidarity in Sacrifice in Endo's The Samurai
- Sacrifice and the Suffering of Children: Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them
- Chapter Five. Woundedness And Community
- Community as a Source of Grace
- The Turn toward Mystical Community: O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away
- Community Reconfigured: Woundedness in Gordon's The Company of Women
- The Surprise of Grace-Filled Community: A Sacramental Reading of Morrison's Paradise
- Chapter Six. Sacramentality in Catholic Fiction: Some Thoughts on a Pattern of Contrast
- A Subtle Sacramental Correction: Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Grace Both Extraordinary and Ordinary: Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy.
- Searching for Glimmers of Sacramentality: McDermott's The Ninth Hour
- A Step Back from the Pattern of Contrast: Some Final Remarks
- Conclusion. A Pattern of Convergence Revisited: A Theological Reflection
- Snapshots of Faith in Western Theology
- A Pattern of Convergence: Some Final Observations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-3666-5
- OCLC:
- 1393220566
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