God's Mirror : : Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century / / Katherine Davies, Toby Garfitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Davies, Katherine,; Garfitt, Toby,
• MitwirkendeR: Davies, Katherine,; Dunlop, Joseph,; Garfitt, Toby,; Gifford, Paul,; Kelly, Michael,; Moore, Brenna,; O’Mahony, Anthony,; Schloesser, Stephen,; Sudlow, Brian,; de Lussy, Florence,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. “Catholicisme ondoyant”: Catholic Intellectual Engagement and the Crisis of Civilization in the 1930s
• 2. Paul Valéry and French Catholicism: Recognizing the Context of Renewal
• 3. A Strange Christian: Simone Weil
• 4. Jean Grenier and the “Spirit of Orthodoxy”
• 5. Charles Du Bos’s Catholicism and His Politics of Sincerity in Interwar France
• 6. From Mystique to Théologique: Messiaen’s “ordre nuveau,” 1935– 39
• 7. Rethinking the Modernity of Bernanos: A Girardian Perspective
• 8. “Into the Catacombs of the Past”: Women and War time Trauma in the French Catholic Ressourcement Project (1939– 45)
• 9. La Relève and Its Afterlife: A Current of Catholic Renewal in Twentieth- Century Quebec
• 10. Louis Massignon: A Catholic Encounter with Islam and the Middle East
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index