Catholic Converts : : British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome /

Catholic Converts : : British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome / / Patrick Allitt.

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Allitt, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction: Intellectuals Becoming Catholics
  • II. New Pride and Old Prejudice
  • III. Loss and Gain: The First English Converts
  • IV. Tractarians and Transcendentalists in America
  • V. Infallibility and Its Discontents
  • VI. America, Modernism, and Hell
  • VII. The Lowliness of His Handmaidens: Women and Conversion
  • VIII. The British Apologists' Spiritual Aeneid
  • IX. Revival and Departure
  • X. Fascists, Communists, Catholics, and Total War
  • XI. Transforming the Past: The Convert Historians
  • XII. Novels from Hadrian to Brideshead
  • XIII. The Preconciliar Generation: 1935-1962
  • Index

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