The Enchanted World

The Vision of Twentieth-century Catholic Writers

• Author(s): James D. Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton Whitehead,
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
• Pages: 134
• ISBN_10: 082459987X
  ISBN_13: 9780824599874
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / General ,

Description:... "The story told here concerns the efforts of Catholic authors in the 20th century to describe a world that is both disenchanted and yet teeming with haunting clues about the presence of God and the miracle of grace. These writers turned to metaphors of nature--the charm of a garden and the setting of the sun--to signal both enchantment and a world darkened by its loss. And they turn to the second language of religious images--Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, a chapel's sanctuary lamp--to cast a spell that might penetrate the cloud of disenchantment that envelopes our world"--