Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith - Couverture rigide

Harries, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0281079331 ISBN 13 : 9780281079339

Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

W H Auden, T S Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C S Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith. . . These are among some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith finds expression in their works, and whose works have helped countless readers to appreciate the different forms that faith can take in different times and places. Richard Harries considers the work of twenty of these writers, painting vivid pictures of their lives and times, and providing us with numerous critically sympathetic insights into the spiritual dimension of their writings.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Harries is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. After nineteen years as Bishop of Oxford he was made a Life Peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth) and he remains active in the House of Lords on human rights issue. He is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity and a Visiting Professor of Theology at King's College, London, where he was formerly Dean. His voice is well known to many through his regular contributions to the Today programme. Among his many highly commended books are The Beauty and the Horror (SPCK. 2016), described by Mary Warnock as 'a deeply interesting book', The Re-enchantment of Morality (SPCK, 2008), shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize, and Art and the Beauty of God (Continuum, 1993), selected as book of the year by Anthony Burgess in The Observer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SPCK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0281079331
• ISBN 13: 9780281079339
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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